Kumataro Ito’s Illustrations of Nudibranchs from the USS Albatross’ Philippine Expedition (ca. 1908). “The roughly 3,000 species in the family nudibranchia [come] in a delightful, dizzying array of shapes, patterns and colours.”
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In a similar vein, if anyone is near Harvard, it's really worth going to see the Blaschka Glass Sea Creatures exhibition: https://hmnh.harvard.edu/sea-creatures-glass
We have a bunch of these at our Museum, too. Here's some in 3d: https://australian.museum/learn/collections/museum-archives-library/blaschka-glass-models/blaschka-3d/
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