An Attempt towards a 



Natural History 



OF TH E 



POLYPE: 



In A LETTER to 



Martin Folkes^ Efq:, 



President of the Royal Society. 



SIR, 



H E Accounts (which thro' your 

 Hands) we have been favoured 

 with from Abroad, concerning 

 the little Creature called a Polype^ 

 have appeared fo extraordinary, fo contrary, 

 to the common Courfe of Nature and our 

 received Opinions of AnimaULife -, that ma- 

 ny People have looked upon them as ridicu- 

 lous Whims and abfurd Impoffibilities. In 

 order, therefore, to fet this Matter right, I 

 beg you'll give me Leave to lay before the 

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