Abraham Trembley and pupils collecting hydra mb-height 2251 1903 Milnes Daimler Charabanc

1903 Milnes Daimler Charabanc

now exhibiting in the Tower of London'

30th May 1922

with figures and a description on the left

Abraham Trembley and pupils collecting hydra mb-height 2251 1903 Milnes Daimler CharabancLandscape view showing the naturalist Abraham Trembley with his two pupils, the sons of Count Willem Bentinck (1704 1774) collecting specimens from a canal 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. 1. The plate is inscribed: 'C. Pronck del. ad viv. 1744. J. V. Schley sculp.' The Swiss natural historian Abraham Trembley (1710