Freshwater hydra mb-code WA5668564 Peers are crowded together to

Peers are crowded together to watch the entry of Queen Caroline

Full length studio portrait of J T Boileau turned slightly to the right as viewed

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

Inscribed: 'Particularitez des pieds veus de costÚ

Saturday 27th February 1971

Freshwater hydra mb-code WA5668564 Peers are crowded together toZoological 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