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It was a very long research project...Rebuilding a catalogue published in 1863 by Leopold Blaschka in German using @BioDivLibrary and many internet resources...and now I found the last missing anemones in an Italian book by Nicolo Contarini (1844)...in Google books...Thanks!
While on a goosse chase trying to find the original engraving of Aiptasia on @BioDivLibrary for our Blaschka Database...I found this thing on an expedition on the Thetis in 1824 https://t.co/XcQD9AIW1b. Any #developmental biologist to explain what's going on there?
@PaoloViscardi let me give you a few clues...There is a book which is very very important for Blaschka models...by Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville. You can check @BioDivLibrary and @NtlMuseumsScot
#blaschkaeveryday this week will look at smaller groups...like Calycozoa. Lucernaria campanulata [127] @DublinDeadZoo @Cornell @AmgueddfaCymru part of a 3 member class...started with Blainville again!
#blaschkaeveryday is ending the Blainville week with a far too colourful model...The early Physophora myzonema made by Leopold with a more jewellery like approach but still! @NEE_Naturalist @BioDivLibrary @NHM_London (pic Peter Taylor)@NtlMuseumsScot. See you Monday!
#blaschkaeveryday ...is slower as restrictions ease. So this week Snails and Slugs. Less known and rarely pictured those land invertebrates were also produced by the Blaschkas such as the Leopard slug, Limax maximus (534) @CantMuseum @NtlMuseumsScot @corningmuseum
#blaschkaeveryday is #octocoralFriday! [Hi! @echinoblog] Another Savigny inspired model...Tubipora hemprichi [16] made out of small glass tubes connected by a membrane and sprinkle with tiny green flowers @corningmuseum @Cornell @aquariummuseum
#blaschkaeveryday. Milne-Edwards book: "Histoire naturelle des coralliaires, ou polypes proprement dits" [@BioDivLibrary] was the main reference for Anthelia Glauca (004) and many others. pics from @nervous_jessica of a wrongly labelled model! And the Sea of Glass..@DrewHarvell
#blaschkaeveryday. One of the first book used by the Blaschka for star fish, brittle star and sea cucumber was published by Jan Adrianus Herklots (1819 -1872) a Dutch biologist. This includes Synapta fasciata [283]. 2 models @Cornell and UCD but 2 ways of mounting tentacles..
#blaschkaeveryday follow the trail of the sea cucumber led by Lorenz Oken illustrations copied by the Blaschka and turn into glass such as Thyone peruana [292] and Stichopodes monocaria [281]. Models @Cornell Chromo @UniHeidelberg Drawing @corningmuseum and tomorrow Synapta!!!
#blaschkaeveryday is entering cucumber territory..sea cucumber or holoturian. Firstly inspired by Lorenz Oken chromos such this Holothuria tubulosa [274] which later was sold also as a dissection [275]...
#Blaschkaeveryday is on the naked snail trail. Eolis or Aeolis then Aeolidia papillosa [369] was described by Alder &Hancock in their "A monograph of the British nudibranchiate Mollusca" [@bhl] published by the @RaySocietyBooks but also copied by Haeckel. @corningmuseum @Cornell
#blaschkaeveryday Nudibranch alley! The most influential scientists were Albany Hancock and Joshua Alder they published in Transactions of the Zoological Society of London Vol.5 1866 @BioDivLibrary a wonderful illustrated nudibranch article. The Blaschka kept pages in their...
#BlaschkaEveryday Jean-Baptiste Verany published in 1851: 1851 Céphalopodes de la Méditerranée. Mollusques Méditerranéens... @BHL with gorgeous chromos and the Blaschka copied nearly the entire book in glass starting with Octopus vulgaris (577) not all in a perfect state...
#BlaschkaEveryday will start the Haeckel week. A Blaschka neigbhour based in Leipzig published Das Protistenreich (1878) and they copied a few including Heliosphaera actinota (645). Each hexagon is made of individual segment. Model from @NHM_London Pictures Guido Mocaficco.
#BlaschkaEveryday As we are following the Joseph Leydi trail here is a three part model: Amoeba proteus [631] showing three shapes this protist can take... drawing @corningmuseum chromos @BioDivLibrary and models @HumboldtUni
#BlaschkaEveryday is illustrating the legacy of J.Leydi and L. Blaschka with Diffuglia pyriformis [632, pear shaped protozoan] notice the broken glass pieces glued to the body. Model from @NHM_London, chromolithographs @BioDivLibrary and drawing from @corningmuseum. Enjoy!
@solwaywalker @DublinDeadZoo @PaoloViscardi Blaschka anemones are not solely based on Gosse chromolithographs (less than 50%) but mainly on the US exploring expedition
@arvidagren @WeardaleDiary @HarvardMuseum The @GNM_Hancock have 47 Blaschka models of nudibranchs but nothing on this scale - amazing. @NEE_Naturalist Read about our Blaschka collection at https://t.co/kSg9hLhDg2