Antique Print-SULCULEOLARIA QUADRIVALVIS-HYDROZOA-POLYP-Schleiden-1867

Subject: Antique print, titled: 'Galeolaria Aurantiaca.' - Two images of Galeolaria Aurantiaca (=Sulculeolaria quadrivalvis), a male and female colony of this Hydrozoa polyp species.

Condition: Excellent, given age. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Medium: Chromolithograph on wove paper.

Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 17 x 26 cm. The image size is ca. 12.5 x 18.9 cm.

Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 6.7 x 10.2 inch. The image size is ca. 4.9 x 7.4 inch.

Part Number: 52556

Location: (PCO) C303-13

Description: "Das Meer" by Matthias Jakob Schleiden. Berlin: A. Sacco, 1867.

Artists and Engravers: Author: Matthias Jakob Schleiden (1804-1881) was a German botanist and co-founder of the cell theory, along with Theodor Schwann and Rudolf Virchow. Schleiden was one of the first German biologists to accept Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.