Freshwater hydra dissection Size:Large: 7 x 5in amazingly low for its time

amazingly low for its time

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Freshwater hydra dissection Size:Large: 7 x 5in amazingly low for its timeZoological study showing a dissected specimen of freshwater hydra illustrating the prey arms. Plate 9 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. et 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 account of experiments