Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10522
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Freshwater hydra
Date
1743
Creator
Jacobus van der Schley (1715 - 1779, Dutch) , Printmaker
After
Pierre Lyonet (1706 - 1789, Dutch) , Entomologist
Object type
Library reference
22248
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 251mm
width (print): 187mm
width (print): 187mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Zoological 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 account of experiments with freshwater hydra, or polyps. The Dutch entomologist Pierre Lyonet (1706-1789) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1748.
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 account of experiments with freshwater hydra, or polyps. The Dutch entomologist Pierre Lyonet (1706-1789) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1748.
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