me ¢uMINAL VERMICULK C) 
their fize nearly equalling that of fpermatic 
vermiculi; but they had no tail, and much re» 
fembled moft minute fpherules. Like infafion 
animalcula, they fometimes {topped at little 
‘fragments of corrupted femen: fometimes their 
-courfe was very rapid, retrograde or rififg and 
finking in the fluid: In a word, they: poffeffed 
‘every property of animalcula. They were feen 
‘in every ftratum of the femen, and thofe at the 
‘bottom ‘moved the dead bodies. of vermiculi, 
which were {till entire, and remained fo fome 
days longer. In the feminal animalcula, we re- 
marked the fame periods with regard to increafe, 
‘diminution of numbers, and termination, as is 
‘generally obferved in the hiftory of other animal. 
-cula; only, when the globular animalcula de: 
creafed, there came two other fmaller generations?. 
the laft, which could fearcely be difcerned, conti- 
~nued until the eighteenth day.. 
_ While examming the femen in this glafs, I ob- 
ferved a portion of the fame kind that had been 
‘put in another glafs, and placed in a ftove, that 
‘it might experience a greater degree of heat (1). 
‘The effect was fuch as we might expeé&t. The 
vermiculi lived longer, and the infufion animal. 
cula appeared fooner: the former died in five 
hours, and the latter appeared in five days.: They 
| were 
(1) The thermometer at temperate, 
