Polyps in a glass with studies of locomotion Product:Greetings card View of the oldest door

View of the oldest door in the Tower of London which lead to a cell known as Little Ease in the White Tower

'Secret Meeting of the Conservative Party'

an Irish family is on the brink of starvation whilst

Wellington's funeral car arriving at the cathedral

Polyps in a glass with studies of locomotion Product:Greetings card View of the oldest doorZoological 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