Volume 2

Zoography; or, the beauties of nature displayed, in select descriptions from the animal, and vegetable, with additions from the mineral kingdom. Systematical arranged / By W. Wood ... Ill. with plates, designed and engraved by Mr. William Daniell.

  • William Wood
Date:
1807
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Credit: Zoography; or, the beauties of nature displayed, in select descriptions from the animal, and vegetable, with additions from the mineral kingdom. Systematical arranged / By W. Wood ... Ill. with plates, designed and engraved by Mr. William Daniell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FRESH-WATER POLYPE. GENERIC CHARACTER. A contractile animal affixed to some substance by ils base, and provided with a number of tcntacula surrounding its mouth. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Hydra fusca. . . . H. tentaculis suboctonis longissimis. Linn. Syst. Nat. Gmel. 1. p. 38/0. Polype with eight long arms. Hydra corpore cordato griseo, cirrhis multoties longioribus. Pallas El. Zooph. p. 29. no. ]. Fresh-water Polype. Ellis Corail. pi. 28. f. C. Trernb. Polyp. 1. p. 22. pi. 1. f. 3,4. Schcej}'. Polyp. 1/54. pi. 3. f. 1. We are indebted to the indefatigable researches of M. Trembley for the natural history of this little animal, which makes so insignificant a figure in the wide field of nature, that till his time we had no regular account of its wonderful properties. It was a doubt, when first discovered, whether the polype was a vegetable or an animal substance; and so nearly is it allied in appearance to a plant, that it 2 R 2