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dcatrize and heal: The ingenious Mr. Tur- 

 BERviLLE Needham, of Twyford, near 

 Southampton, has performed the fame Ex- 

 periment with Hke Succefs, as he has inform- 

 ed the Royal Society ', and Monf. Gerrard 

 DE ViLLARs has feen the Urticce on the 

 Coafl about Rochelk reproducing ail the 

 Parts cut away, and the Star-Fifhes putting 

 forth new Radii in the Place of thofe they 

 had loft. 



Monf. Reaumur and Monf. Bonnet 

 have found fome Sorts of Earth- Worms re- 

 pair themfelves likewife, but with much 

 more Slownefs and Uncertainty : and you, 

 Sir, was lately pleafed to fhew the Royal 

 Society four fmall Water- Worms, not only 

 alive and vigorous, but in all Appearance 

 perfed:, which about three Weeks before 

 had been the Pieces of two Worms cut in 

 Halves, and fent to you out of the Country. 

 At the fame time you likewife fliewed a 

 Worm of the fame Kind, that had been 

 never cut, and alfo two other Worms, that 

 feemed to differ from it only in being fome- 

 thing fhorter, which had been the Parts of 

 a Worm cut in two Pieces by yourfelf about 

 ten Days before, and which had repaired 

 themfelves in ygur own Cuftody. 



It may now, perhaps, be expeded, that 



I (hould beftow fome Pains to determine, 



whether this Reprodudion, is, or is not to 



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