plate lxxix polypus levis hoyle fine art print carl chun Size:30×40 cm Date: 1919-1920

Date: 1919-1920

his father remarried and emigrated to the United States

both humorous and grim

particularly evidenced in the stylised sea

the siphonophores are not single animals at all but floating colonies of specialised parts working as one — relatives of the Portuguese man o' war

plate lxxix polypus levis hoyle fine art print carl chun Size:30×40 cm Date: 1919-1920Plate LXXIX Polypus Levis Hoyle from "The Cephalopoda"(1898 99) by Carl Chun Little was known about cephalopoda in the 1900s. So Carl Chun, a well known German marine biologist with a specialty in cephalopods and plankton, led the German expedition aboard the steamboat Valdivia in 1898 to explore the deep sea. He was among a growing fraction of scientist who believed that there was life in the deep sea. Original from Biodiversity Heritage Library