and why he named a jellyfish after his first wife:
"Mitrocoma Annae belong to the most charming of all the Medusae… Its tentacles hung like blonde hair ornaments of a princess…"
his sea squirts &c.
other plates, including hummingbirds, bats, spiders, frogs, flatworms, reptiles, liverworts, gazelles and insectivorous plants are in his Kunstformen der Natur.
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wow is all I can say. pretty much the most beautiful drawings I've ever seen. thanks english.
That's what I was going to say, too.
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