Polyps in a glass with studies of locomotion Product:Greetings card 'Secret Meeting of the Conservative

'Secret Meeting of the Conservative Party'

an Irish family is on the brink of starvation whilst

are tearing up the Extradition Treaty of 1842

25th June 1969

Polyps in a glass with studies of locomotion Product:Greetings card 'Secret Meeting of the ConservativeZoological 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