An ATTEM\pm tol'irtirlis a 



Natural mistory 



O F T^H E 



POLYPE: 



In A LETTER To 



Martin Folkes^ Ef^; 



President of the Royal Society.. 



DESCRIBING 



Their dIfFerent Species ; the Places where to feek and how 

 to 'find them; their wonderful Produdion and Increafe; 

 the Form, Strufture and Ufe of their feveral Parts ; and 

 the Manner they catch their Prey : 



With an Account of their Diseases and Cures; of their an>azing 

 Reproduction after being cut in Pieces, (as firft difcovered by 

 Mr. Tr EM BLEY, at the Hague j) of the beft Methods to perform 

 that Operation, ond of the Time requifite to perfedl the feveral Parts 

 after being divided : And 



Alfo full Direct IONS how to feed, clean, manage and preferve them 

 at all Seafons of the Year. 



Likev^ife a Course of real Experiments, performed by cutting 

 thefe Creatures in every Way that can be eafily contrived : Shewing 

 the daily Progrefs of each Part towards becoming a perfeft Polype. 



The Whole explained every where by great Numbers of proper Figures, 

 and intermixt throughout with Variety of Observations and 

 Experiments, 



___,,___^ . I mil I 



•By HENBT BEAKER, Fellow of the Royal Society, 

 and Member"^f the Society of Jniiquaries ^ in London, 



Rerum Nalura nufquam magis qucim in Minimis tota ejl, 

 Plin. Nat. Hift. Lib. xi. c. 2. 



LONDON: 

 Printed for R DgosLcy, at T^/^'s Head in Pall-Mall, and 

 fold by M. Cooper in Pater-noJier-Row, and J, Cuff, 

 Optician, iii F^eetjlreet. 1743. 



(Price bound Four Shillings.) 



