Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9851
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'Muscinae' [mosses]
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
Sixteen botanical studies, figures of bryophytes set within a landscape:
1 Thamnium alopecurum; 2 Eurhynchium praelongum; 3 Polytrichum commune; 4 Sphagnum cymbifolium; 5 Splachnum luteum; 6 Mnium undulatum; 7 Rhodobryum roseum; 8 Physcomitrium acuminatum; 9 Physcomitrium ericetorum; 10 Physcomitrium sphaericum; 11 Sphagnum medium; 12 Andreaea thedenii; 13 Hypnum castrense; 14 Tetraplodon urceolatus; 15 Dissodon hornschuchii; 16 Dissodon froelichii.
Plate 72 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 Thamnium alopecurum; 2 Eurhynchium praelongum; 3 Polytrichum commune; 4 Sphagnum cymbifolium; 5 Splachnum luteum; 6 Mnium undulatum; 7 Rhodobryum roseum; 8 Physcomitrium acuminatum; 9 Physcomitrium ericetorum; 10 Physcomitrium sphaericum; 11 Sphagnum medium; 12 Andreaea thedenii; 13 Hypnum castrense; 14 Tetraplodon urceolatus; 15 Dissodon hornschuchii; 16 Dissodon froelichii.
Plate 72 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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