For #NationalPandaDay 🐼:
Earliest published European image of the Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca), based on the first skin sent to Europe, acquired by French missionary Armand David in China in 1869 and sent to Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris.

Plate 50 in H. Milne-Edwards’ _Recherches pour servir à l'histoire naturelle des mammifères_ (Paris, 1868-1874). Via Biodiversity Heritage Library : https://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/6947121880