Freshwater hydra mb-code WA5668564 On a table to the

On a table to the left rests portfolio of papers and the Society's silver gilt mace

Peers are crowded together to watch the entry of Queen Caroline

The tower of St John dominates the scene

Inscribed: 'Particularitez des pieds veus de costÚ

Finsbury in 1613 with a description

Freshwater hydra mb-code WA5668564 On a table to theZoological 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