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Plate 80, Blastoidea
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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)
- Louis Renard's Fish, Plate XXVII Louis Renard (after Samuel Fallours)
- Crested Chameleon Josef Maria Eder and Eduard Valenta
- Actinologia Britannica, Plate I Philip Henry Gosse
- Fly, Caterpillar, Pear, and Centipede Joris Hoefnagel
- Great Barrier Reef Echinoderms William Saville-Kent
- Plate 73, Ascomycetes Ernst Haeckel
- Swallow and Camellia Ito Jakuchu
- Walrus Skeleton Edouard Joseph d’Alton