. Some Account of the Insect Called the Fresh-Water Polypus, Before-Mentioned in These Transactions, as the Same was Delivered at a Meeting of the Royal Society, by the President, on Thursday, March 24. 1742-3 . In thefe Five laji Figures it may he noted^ thatyhowever extended and [welled the Stomach of theInfeB appears J the pofierior Tart is not fir etchedin Troporttony but dtfcovers itfelf every-where asa fmall Xail^ in which is contained a Guty withwhich the Stomach 12. Shews one of the Horns or Arms of a Po-lypus n;ery much magnified^ for the giving fomeimjperfeB Idea of
. Some Account of the Insect Called the Fresh-Water Polypus, Before-Mentioned in These Transactions, as the Same was Delivered at a Meeting of the Royal Society, by the President, on Thursday, March 24. 1742-3 . In thefe Five laji Figures it may he noted^ thatyhowever extended and [welled the Stomach of theInfeB appears J the pofierior Tart is not fir etchedin Troporttony but dtfcovers itfelf every-where asa fmall Xail^ in which is contained a Guty withwhich the Stomach 12. Shews one of the Horns or Arms of a Po-lypus n;ery much magnified^ for the giving fomeimjperfeB Idea of the Knots or Papilla in thetranjparent membranous SubfiancCy of which it iscompofed. Tab, VI. Reprefents a Polypus that had fever al Toung grow-ing from him at once, fome of which had alfoothers fpringrng out from them again. This wasthe fame Polypus mentioned in the foregoing^aperto have had Three young ones dependent from himat the fame time, but whichy becoming fiill morefruitfuly was drawn a few T>ays after as he ap-pears in this FinrCy and wherh be fides thofe herereprejentedy Eight other young ones had at fever altimes feparated themfelves from himy fince Ireceived the InfeBs. VII. An ^^ •^f-. :fi ^^5- •>-i. ■^IH/;philtrans07059734
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