Adolf Naef’s Vintage Octopus Illustrations
Made awesome on August 29th, 2011 ˑ
The Biodiversity Heritage Library on behalf of the Smithsonian Institution just released the work of Adolf Naef (1883-1949), a Swiss zoologist and palaeontologist who studied the squid Loligo vulgaris, the subject of his dissertation. Below are some of the awesome illustrations from the study. You can see the entire study here.
