Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.9490
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    ‘Hexastylus'

    Date
    1887
    Creator
    E Giltsch (German) , Lithographer
    After
    Ernst Haeckel (1834 - 1919, German) , Biologist
    Adolf Giltsch (1852 - 1911, German) , Lithographer
    Object type
    Library reference
    21971
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 275mm
    width (print): 210mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    Description
    Microscopic study of Hexastylus (Spumellaria et Nassellaria Taf. 11 / The voyage of H.M.S. 'Challenger' Radiolaria pl. 21), a class of radiolarian.

    Plate from Haeckel's Grundriss einer allgemeinen Naturgeschichte der radiolarien (zweiter Theil der Monographie der Radiolarien) (Berlin, 1887).

    Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1834-1919), German zoologist, naturalist and eugenicist, was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
    Associated place
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       > Europe
          > Germany
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