Freshwater hydra Product:Fine art poster an astronomical text-book for children

an astronomical text-book for children

View of the Green Gate Tavern

later as Balenus hameri with two enlarged details A-B showing open and closed states

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales later to become Edward VII

Queen Caroline and Mrs Maria Wood fighting

Freshwater hydra Product:Fine art poster an astronomical text-book for childrenZoological study showing a specimen of freshwater hydra (figure 1) with structural details (figures 2 4). Plate 5 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 this plate is taken, gives an