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Gunther von Hagens, a German anatomist, uses real cadavers, preserved by plastination, to display the anatomy of human and animal bodies.
Pagurus Maculatus, The res mottled Rosk-Crab; Cancer chelis crassissimis, The rough-shell’d Crab. (1754)
via NYPL
Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms of Nature) is a book of lithographic and autotype prints by German biologist Ernst Haeckel.
“Amaranthine: A study of the rare concurrence of beauty and death found in ornithological specimens.”
Source: Mark Laita
Fred Scherer installing Birds of Paradise Group—American Museum of Natural History (1945)
Source: American Museum of Natural History Research Library Photo Collection