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Title: Seen in Germany
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Baker, Ray Stannard, 1870-1946
Subjects: Germany -- Social life and customs
Publisher: London, Harper
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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had belonged to a travelling menagerie,and, as he informs you, it had agreeably chosen todie just as the menagerie was coming into Jena. It is not often that a professor of zoology hassuch a fine chimpanzee die at his front door, hesays. Presently he shows you a collection of pictures,from exquisite engravings on stone which are to forma part of his new work, Art Forms of Nature.They are pictures of the lower forms of animal life,medusa, radiolaria, corals, sponges, and many otherforms, and both in drawing and in coloring they aresuperb. You learn that he himself Is the artist whohas produced this work, making the drawings andcoloring them with his own hand. You suggest howadmirably some of these forms of life might be usedby an artist for unique and beautiful decorativeeffects. Instantly he points to the ceiling of hisstudy, and there, painted true to color, is a hugelikeness of that delicately beautiful creature of thesea, the medusa. I have often suggested the use of these forms of
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138 Seen in Germany life for decorative effects, he says; the artist mustalways go back to nature for his best motives. Professor Haeckels study is a homely, quiet roomupstairs in the Zoological Institute of Jena, A tablein the centre is crowded with mounted animals. AsProfessor Haeckel talks with you, his hand rests ona curious specimen of trunk fish from the Mediter-ranean Sea. At his elbow stands a big black apewith its skeleton counterpart, and at one side thereis a fine specimen of that most rare and interestinganimal, the duckbill, — the mammal that lays eggs,which has been of such value as evidence to com-parative zoologists. Over his desk in the cornerthere are pictures of Darwin and of Johannes Miiller,the latter being the leading German zoologist in thefirst half of the nineteenth century. These two men,with Professor Gegenbaur, who preceded Haeckelin the chair of zoology at Jena, may be said to haveshaped Haeckels career. It was the Origin ofSpecies, read at a time of dou

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