J 36 A Course of Experiments 



It will be obferved, that the fmgle Arm 

 on one of the Divifions is exceeding long, 

 and has another fliorter Arm iffuing from the 

 8ide thereof; a hujus Natura I have rnore 

 than once feen. 



The young One, (a,) fell off on the eighth 

 Inftant. 



EXPERIMENT X. 



Cutting off half a Polype's Ti^/V*, 



IWfA T, II, 1743. As the Englijlo Polvr. 

 •^ ^^ pes have a considerable Length of Tail, 

 (efpecially v^hen extended,) thro' the Mid- 

 dle whereof the Mjcrofcope difcovers a long 

 ftrait Gut pafling from the Stomach to the 

 Anus^ in the fame Manner as it does in a 

 Lobjier : I cut off this Tail at about half- 

 way between the Stomach arid its Extre- 

 mity, to try if fuch a minute Piece of meer 

 Tail would become a Polype^ as Pieces of the 

 more noble Parts have done. And this I 

 was the more defirous to experience, as I had 

 feldorn obferved this Part prolific in their 

 natural Way of Produftion. 



* This was again repeated in the Thirteenth Experi- 



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