Abraham Trembley and pupils collecting hydra Finish:Single 3rd July 1985

3rd July 1985

'City traind bands'

'Before The Trial'

Plate VI from Anatomie Pathologique du Cholera Morbus by Nikolay Pirogov (St Petersburg

Abraham Trembley and pupils collecting hydra Finish:Single 3rd July 1985Landscape view showing the naturalist Abraham Trembley collecting specimens from a moat or canal, using a net. His two pupils, the sons of Count Willem Bentinck (1704 1774) sit beside him with a dog behind. The water feature is within a waled and tree lined garden at Zorgvlied near the Hague in the Netherlands. Vignette from Memoires pour server a l'histoire d'un genre de polypes d'eau douce by Abraham Trembley (Leiden, 1744), p. 149. The plate is