Abstract
Wall charts were a universal educational and scientific media until the mid-1900 s, and one of the most prolific of collectors was Karl Georg Friedrich Rudolph Leuckart (1822–1898). The entire collection of Leuckart's wall charts is housed at the University of Pavia, Italy. Shown here is Pavia number 100p, by Berthold Hatschek (1854–1941), a student of Rudolf Leuckart (Leipzig) and Ernst Haeckel (Jena), who received a Ph.D. for his work on the metamorphosis of the Trochophore larvae. A compilation of the Leuckart collection is available in stunning book form: Visual Zoology: The Pavia collection of Leuckart's zoological wall charts (1877), by Carlo Alberto Redi, Silvia Garagna, Maurizio Zuccotti, Ernesto Capanna, and Helmut Zacharias (reprinted with permission from Ibis Publisher © 2000). Shown in this partial reproduction of one wall chart is the anatomy of a Tunicate, a protochordate that is used to study notochord development in the context of vertebrate evolution, fertilization in a self-sterile (plant-like) mechanism, and precise patterning of unequal cleavage.
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