c5 Other Btflances of ReproduBton 

 frequently experienced it, that a fmall Blow 

 upon the Tail of an Eel, Viper, or other 

 Serpent will kill it inilantly ; though it 

 would live feveral Hours after being cut in 

 Pieces. 



Since this extraordinary Power of repair- 

 ing itfelf, when cut in Pieces, has been dif- 

 covered in the Polype, it was fuppofed, with 

 good Reafon, (as Nature in her Operations 

 proceeds not by Fits and Starts from one 

 Order of Being to the next, but by gentle 

 and almoft imperceptible Gradations) that 

 other Creatures might be endued with alike 

 Capacity: and, upon making the Experi- 

 ment, feveral have indeed been found able to 

 do the fame. 



A Water- Worm about an Inch and half 

 long was difcovered hy Monf Bonnet, 

 which repaired itfelf after being divided^ and 

 Monf. Lyonet found another above three 

 Inches in Length, which being cut into thir- 

 ty or forty Pieces, every Piece became a per- 

 fect Worm. 



Monf. GuETTARD and Monf. Jussieu, 

 made Trials of a like Kind, at the Requeft 

 of Monf, Reaumur, as well on the Urticce 

 Mari7tce as on Star-Fijhes found on the 

 Coails of Poidtou and Nonnandy : and after 

 the Star-Fijhes had been broke and cut into 

 feveral Pieces, they not only continued to 

 live, but their Wounds were perceived to 



cicatrize 



