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
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    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.
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