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hundred and fifty times as large as cither of them : one of thefe 

 Animalcules was alive and moved its feet, and I was certain it vvus 

 of full fixe, bccaufe it appeared to have been produced from a 

 maggot : and 1 the more wondered at the figiit of fo minute an 

 animal, becaufe I could not have imagined fo fmall a creature 

 could live in tlie open air ; for, if v»e fuppofe the one hah ot this 

 animal's body to confiil of a thin or watery fublhmce, one would 

 conclude, fo fmall a quantity would be foon evaporated ; but yet, 

 when we find that fo Imall an Animalcule remains a long time 

 alive, we mull conclude, that Nature, our kind and provident mo- 

 ther, has formed the Ikin of this animal lb hard and fuhd, that litrs 

 tie or no moiliure can be evaporated from it, 



Thefe were my obfervations during one fummer and the winter 

 which I'ollowed. On the 17 th of May in the following year, I did 

 not find, among all my goofeberry trees, above three or four 

 branches the leaves of which were contradled. Upon opening thofe 

 leaves, 1 found eight or ten of the before mentioned Animalcules,, 

 and among them one of a dark colour, inclining to black, and larger 

 than the relL This, on account of its fize, I judged to be a fe-. 

 male ; and upon opening it. 1 took out of the body twenty-one 

 young ones, of which one feemed to be completely formed, and 

 of a lighter green colour than the parent; the others were of fuch 

 diflcrcnt fizes and colours, that in the fmallefl, I could neither dif- 

 tinguifh the eyes, nor the green colour. 



I opened feveral other of thele Animalcules, which I deemed to 

 be females, and took out of their bodies many young ones ; in fome 

 more than thirty, and in none lefs than twenty, of different fizes, 

 and fome fo fmall that I could neither difi;inguith their limbs nor 

 eyes. 



On the 20th of INIay I cut off three branches of this year's growth 

 from a goofeberry tree, on which branches I was certain there was 

 no animalcule of this fpecies ; thele I put into a vellel of water, and 

 on the tops of two of them I put t^^'o and on the third branch tlu'ec 



