Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9848
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‘Gamochonia’ [octopus and squid]
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
Five figures of cephalopods:
1 Chiroteuthis veranyi; 2 Histioteuthis ruppelii; 3 Pinnoctopus cordiformis; 4 Octopus vulgaris; 5 Octopus granulatus.
Plate 54 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 Chiroteuthis veranyi; 2 Histioteuthis ruppelii; 3 Pinnoctopus cordiformis; 4 Octopus vulgaris; 5 Octopus granulatus.
Plate 54 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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