Sri Lanka/Germany: 'A view of Nuwara Eliya Lake'. Watercolour painting by the German scientist and traveller Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919), c. 1882. Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (February 16, 1834 – August 9, 1919), also written von Haeckel, was an eminent German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor and artist who discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms, and coined many terms in biology, including anthropogeny, ecology, phylum, phylogeny, and the kingdom Protista.

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