Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9847
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‘Actiniae’ [sea anemones]
Date
1899
Creator
Adolf Giltsch (1852 - 1911, German) , Lithographer
After
Ernst Haeckel (1834 - 1919, German) , Biologist
Object type
Library reference
42553
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 357mm
width (print): 279mm
width (print): 279mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Fifteen figures of sea anemones set within an underwater seascape:
1 Heliactis bellis; 2 Mesacmaea stelata; 3 Aiptasia conchii; 4 Cylista impatiens; 5 Bunodes thallia; 6 Metridium praetextum; 7 Heliactus troglodytes; 8 Anthea cereus; 9 Aiptasia undata; 10 Aiptasia diaphana; 11 Bunodes monilifera; 12 Corynactis viridis; 13 Metridium concinnatum; 14 Sagartia chrysosplenium; 15 Actinoloba dianthus.
Plate 49 from Kunstformen der natur by Ernst Haeckel (Leipzig, Wien, Bibliographische Institut, 1899-1904).
Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1834-1919), German zoologist, naturalist and eugenicist, was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
1 Heliactis bellis; 2 Mesacmaea stelata; 3 Aiptasia conchii; 4 Cylista impatiens; 5 Bunodes thallia; 6 Metridium praetextum; 7 Heliactus troglodytes; 8 Anthea cereus; 9 Aiptasia undata; 10 Aiptasia diaphana; 11 Bunodes monilifera; 12 Corynactis viridis; 13 Metridium concinnatum; 14 Sagartia chrysosplenium; 15 Actinoloba dianthus.
Plate 49 from Kunstformen der natur by Ernst Haeckel (Leipzig, Wien, Bibliographische Institut, 1899-1904).
Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1834-1919), German zoologist, naturalist and eugenicist, was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
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