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Plate 92, Filicinae
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Plate from Ernst Haeckel's visually dazzling Kunstformen der Natur, the Art Forms of Nature, published in 1904. With the assistance of Jena artist-lithographer Adolf Giltsch, Haeckel produced one hundred plates depicting the forms of animal life, mainly marine animals. With this book Haeckel wanted to create an aesthetics of nature) and to show how the incessant struggle for existence he had learnt from Darwin was in fact producing an endless beauty and variety of forms "Darwin and Humboldt combined together." (Image source: Library of Congress)
- White Heron John James Audubon
- Plate 79, Lacertilia Ernst Haeckel
- Louis Renard's Fish, Plate XLV Louis Renard (after Samuel Fallours)
- Greater Egyptian Jerboa Skeleton Edouard Joseph d’Alton
- Plate 88, Discomedusae Ernst Haeckel
- Long-Tsing-Yu IV François-Nicolas Martinet
- Man and Octopus Ogawa Kazumasa
- Fruit Bat Skeleton Edouard Joseph d’Alton