130 A Courfe of Experiments 



May^ 2.— The Arms of both young Ones 

 were to day lengthened confiderably, and 

 each greedily feized a Piece of Worm : fo 

 that being now perfect Polypes, any farther 

 Account of them would appear fuperfluous. 



They botli dropped from the old One two 

 Days afterwards. 



EXPERIMENT VII. 



Cutting a Polype lengthwife through the 

 Body^ without dividing the Head. 



v^Pi?/!/, 24, i743..-Mr.TREMBLEV 

 "^^ having divided the Polype, from the 

 Head, through the Body, to the Tail, but 

 without cutting through the Tail, and there- 

 by produced feveral Bodies conjoined by one 

 Tail ; I was defirous of trying to divide One 

 after a quite contrary Manner; viz, by 

 cutting it lengthwife from the Tail to the 

 Head, but leaving the Head uncut : in order 

 to difcover how two or more Bodies can be 

 fupplied with Food by one Head. 



I therefore placed the largeft Polype I had 

 on a Piece of Paper, and whilft it lay con- 

 traded, cut it quite through the Tail and 

 Body, flopping my ScilTars as near the Head 

 as I could. This was done at half an Hour 

 paft fevcn in ^hc Evening. 



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