on the Polype, \y^ 



EXPERIMENT XIX, 



jin Attempt to make the divided Parts of 

 different Polypes unite. 



yiUGU S T, 4, 1743. Mr. Trembler 

 -^^ having informed us, that he fometimes 

 had found Means to make the divided Parts of 

 different Polypes grow together, foas to forrr> 

 a Creature by the Conjunflion of the Head- 

 Part of one Animal with the Tail-Part of 

 another, I was delirous of trying the fame 

 Experiment : and chufing for that Intention 

 two Polypes of an equal Bignefs, as nearly 

 as I could judge, that they might the better 

 tally together^ I placed them in a Drop of 

 Water, on a Slip of Paper, fide by fide, 

 with their Heads turn'd the fame Way; 

 that, as foon as cut afunder, the Head-End 

 of either might eafily be brought to theTaiU 

 End of the other. 



Being difpofed after this Manner, I waited 

 till they both were extended at the fame 

 Time, and then watching my Opportunity, 

 J divided them both, at one Stroke of the Scif- 

 lars, Paper and all, exadlly through the Mid- 

 dle of their Bodies. 



My Paper was pretty broad, that one 

 Part of it might not fall from the other 

 upon cutting : and by making an Hollow in 

 it, I contrived that the two Polypes might 



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