Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9486
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Various classes of radiolarian
Date
1862
Creator
W Wagenschieber (German) , Engraver
After
Ernst Haeckel (1834 - 1919, German) , Biologist
Object type
Library reference
21971
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 315mm
width (print): 225mm
width (print): 225mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Microscopic study of various classes of radiolarian, amoeboid protozoa found as zooplankton: 1-5. Acanthostaurus: 1,2. A. purpurascens, 3,4. A. forceps, 5. A. hastatus; 6. Litholophus rhipidium; 7,8. Acanthochiasma: 7. A. krohnii, 8. A. fusiforme.
Plate from Haeckel's Die Radiolarien (Rhizopoda radiaria): eine Monographie: Atlas (Berlin, 1862), a monograph dedicated to the study of radiolaria.
Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1834-1919), German zoologist, naturalist and eugenicist, was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Plate from Haeckel's Die Radiolarien (Rhizopoda radiaria): eine Monographie: Atlas (Berlin, 1862), a monograph dedicated to the study of radiolaria.
Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1834-1919), German zoologist, naturalist and eugenicist, was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
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