There's an entire community project waiting to happen here with annotation of each of these images with an NCBI taxonomy ID. I would certainly love to see these illustrations come back in to vogue in various databases.
There is value in the drawing process, as it is in part itself an annotation exercise, wherein the illustrator decides which anatomical features to draw (or not draw) on the organism. If done well, this can reveal a lot of information relatively quickly.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 26.4 ms ] threadThere is value in the drawing process, as it is in part itself an annotation exercise, wherein the illustrator decides which anatomical features to draw (or not draw) on the organism. If done well, this can reveal a lot of information relatively quickly.