Freshwater hydra dissection Size:Large: 7 x 5in St Bartholomew-by-the-Exchange met the same

St Bartholomew-by-the-Exchange met the same fate in 1840 when Threadneedle Street was widened

amazingly low for its time

Comedian Frank Skinner who has just returned from the Edinburgh Festival

Plate 2 from the paper 'On new properties of heat

Freshwater hydra dissection Size:Large: 7 x 5in St Bartholomew-by-the-Exchange met the sameZoological study showing a dissected specimen of freshwater hydra illustrating the prey arms. Plate 9 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. et 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