Polyps in a glass with studies of locomotion Product:Greetings card February 1972 72-1465-057

February 1972 72-1465-057

View of building at the entrance of Little St Helen's

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Wellington's funeral car arriving at the cathedral

Polyps in a glass with studies of locomotion Product:Greetings card February 1972 72-1465-057Zoological studies showing the sessile movement of freshwater hydra (figures 1 10), with specimens kept in a glass of water (figure 11). Plate 3 from Memoires pour server a l'histoire d'un genre de polypes d'eau douce by Abraham Trembley (Leiden, 1744). The plate is inscribed: 'P. Lyonet delin. J. v. Schley sculp. 1743.' The Swiss natural historian Abraham Trembley (1710 1784) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1743. His book, from which