on the Polype.^ 125 



EXPERIMENT V. 



Cutfhig a Polype in two Parts, 

 lengthways, 



yjFRIL.z^, 1743. In the After- 



-^^noon, at five o'Clock, I placed an Englijlo 

 Polype in a Drop of Water on a Slip of Pa- 

 per, and cut it the long Way from Head to 

 Tail, in its contrad:ed State: the Manner of 

 its being divided will be un- . , 



derftood by the Figure, where 

 tlie black Line denotes the 

 Place of Seftion. 



I immediately put the two Halves in a 

 glafs Veffel of Water, where they contrafted 

 for about half an Hour, and then appeared 

 thus. 



April ^ 25.— The two Halves were become 

 this Morning, at eight, compleat Polypes^ 

 abating the Defedl of the Arms. They raised 

 themfelves upright on their Tail-End; and, 

 what is very extraordinary, each of them 

 appeared nearly as large as when they both 

 made but one : and that even before they 



eat. 



