40 SEMINAL VERMICULI. Il, 
die, or nearly about it. And feminal vermiculi, 
inftead of ceafing to move and perifhing at a {mall 
degree of heat, according to M, De Buffon, 
fupport as much as is deftructive to many other 
animals ; which far from being wonderful is ra- 
ther congenial to their nature, fince they live in 
warm blooded animals, that is, in an atmofphere 
in general much warmer than the air, and other 
fluids where animals are found, and it is fit 
that they fhould be able to refift much greater 
heat. 
CHAP. VI. 
NEW EXPERIMENTS AND OBSERVATIONS TENDING 
TO DETERMINE THE NATURE OF SEMINAL VER- 
MICULI. 
T erarrer myfelf that the reader will not be 
difpleafed, if he does not find the fame order and 
connection in the reft of the obfervations, which 
Thave hitherto endeavoured to preferve. It is 
neceflary to confider what follows as an appen- 
dix, which, in my opinion, muft indifpenfably 
be added to prove the animation of the vermi- 
cul 
