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the tentacles are the only portions of the fresh-water 

 Polype which are incapable of reproducing the whole 

 organism when separated from it.* 



But we must bid adieu to the Anemones for the 

 present, attractive as they are. These pages will have 

 shown that much yet remains to be done before a 

 clear and positive account of their stnicture and func- 

 tions can be written ; and as they are just now " the 

 rage," we may hope that abundant experience will issue 

 in some satisfactory result. 



* I am informed by Mr Bohn, of Essex Street, that, in the tank of 

 one of his customers, an Anthea spontaneously divided itself into two 

 — "both mother and child doing as well as can be expected." Mr 

 Beck, the optician, also informs me that he has watched the process of 

 self-division in the Anthea, beginning at the base, and ending in the 

 production of two perfect animals. 



