Some papers lately read before the Royal Society concerning the fresh-water polypus
Subtitle: an insect, which hath this surprising property, that being cut into several pieces, each piece becomes a perfect animal, as complete as that of which it was originally only a part
By: collected and published by Cromwell Mortimer
Contributors: Mortimer, Cromwell, -1752; Réaumur, René-Antoine Ferchault de, 1683-1757
Series: Philosophical transactions -- no. 467; Philosophical transactions, giving some account of the present undertakings, studies, and labours of the ingenious, in many considerable parts of the world -- no. 467
Publisher: Printed for T. Woodward ... and C. Davis ... printers to the Royal Society
Published: 1743
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Subjects: Hydra
Notes: Signatures: [pi]1 <a>-<b>⁴ <c>1.

Translation of a letter dated 15 Jan. 1743 to Martin Folkes.
Table of contents: title: Observations and experiments upon the freshwater polypus / by Monsieur Trembley ; translated from the French by P.H.Z[ollman]., F.R.S.; title: An abstract of what is contained in the preface to the sixth volume of Mons. Reaumur's History of Insects, relating to the above-mentioned Observations.