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Cover Legend: Nepenthaceae: Kannenpflanzen (Plantae: Nepenthales) by Ernst Haeckel (183-1919); Plate 62 from "Kunstformen der Natur" (1904). Ernst Haeckel was the German scientist who coined the terms "Darwinism" and "ecology". He was also an accomplished artist. Haeckel traveled far and wide, from Sicily to Ceylon, to the North Sea, and beyond. Sketchpads and watercolors accompanied his microscope wherever he went. His on-the-spot drawings of deep-sea vegetation, aquatic creatures, frogs, birds, and higher animals were turned into more than 1,000 engravings. The Malaysian pitcher plant illustrated on the cover was discovered on January 4, 1901, in a waterfall in Java where Haeckel painted it from life. The leaves of this insectivorous flowering plant are shaped like pitchers and act as ant traps. Lured by nectar, insects drown in the rainwater collected in the pitcher and are subsequently digested by plant enzymes. The curlicue stems and tendrils lend this drawing a decidedly Art Nouveau flair. (From an exhibition at the MBL/WHOI library, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, curated by Ann Weissmann, http://www.mblwhoilibrary.org/haeckel.)