Ludwig Becker, a painter and naturalist, leaves Germany for Australia during the 1848 revolution. Thomas Richard Heywood Thomson and William Allen publish a narrative of their exploration of the Niger River. Hugh Edwin Strickland publishes The Dodo and its Kindred. Ludwig Leichhardt vanishes in the Australian Outback as is presumed dead. Joseph Wolf, a major illustrator for John Gould's The Birds of Great Britain, among other ornithological compendiums, arrives in London.
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