Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9855
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‘Ascidiae’ [sea squirts]
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
Fourteen figures of ascidians, or sea squirts, marine filter-feeders:
1-3 Cynthia melocactus, including ‘mouth’ and bisected views; 4 Molgula tubulosa; 5 Fragarium elegans; 6-7 Polyclinum constellatum; 8 Synoecum turgens; 9 Botryllus polycyclus; 10 Botryllus rubigo; 11 Botryllus marionis; 12 Botryllus helleborus; 13 Polycyclus cyaneus; 14 Botrylloides purpureus.
Plate 85 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.
1-3 Cynthia melocactus, including ‘mouth’ and bisected views; 4 Molgula tubulosa; 5 Fragarium elegans; 6-7 Polyclinum constellatum; 8 Synoecum turgens; 9 Botryllus polycyclus; 10 Botryllus rubigo; 11 Botryllus marionis; 12 Botryllus helleborus; 13 Polycyclus cyaneus; 14 Botrylloides purpureus.
Plate 85 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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