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October is #BatAppreciationMonth! Here they are being fully appreciated in plate 67 from Ernst Haeckel’s dazzling Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms of Nature), published in 1904. More about the image, including details of the line-up, here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/ernst-haeckel-s-bats-1904

A Treatise on Artificial Limbs (1899) – an encyclopaedic account of limb prosthetics, from a relative of the man who invented the rubber foot: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/treatise-on-artificial-limbs