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                                 Image number: RS.9487
                             
                         
                         
                     
                 
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            'Spongosphaera streptacantha' and 'Dictyosoma trigonizon'
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                                1862
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
                                Creator
                            
                            
                                W Wagenschieber (German) , Engraver
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                Ernst Haeckel (1834 - 1919, German) , Biologist
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                Library reference
                            
                            
                                21971
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                Dimensions
                            
                            
                                height (print): 315mm
width (print): 225mm
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            width (print): 225mm
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                                Description
                            
                            
                                Microscopic study of Spongosphaera streptacantha (figs 1-3) and Dictyosoma trigonizon (figs 4-6), classes of radiolarian: amoeboid protozoa that are found as zooplankton. 
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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