‘ANIMAL REPRODUCTIONS,  25'¢ 
‘the animal lived. And the experiment might 
have been begun on newts in preference, felec- 
ting the youngeft, becaufe this amphibious ani- 
mal is eafier mutilated than fnails, more tenaci- 
ous of life, and reproduces more readily ; but I 
had not leifure for fuch experiments, which, if 
undertaken by any expert naturalift, will un- 
doubtedly tend to utility, and may form.a new 
chapter in. phyfiology. 
In the whole courfe of this memoir, I have de- 
livered the refults of my experiments only, and 
always fupprefled the details. Had I related 
thefe, it would have been a volume, not a me- 
moir; but I was defirous: of inftructing the read- 
er, without fatiguing him by long circumftantial 
narratives. lI always hope to have obtained fuf. 
ficient credit with. the public to merit belief. It 
gives me pleafure to obferve, that almoft the 
whole of thefe refults are confirmed by diftin- 
guifhed naturalifts, as will appear in a fecond 
memoir on the reproductions of {nails, where an 
abftra&t fhall be given of the writings in my fa- 
vour, and, at the fame time, one of all thofe that 
attempt to controvert them. The confirmers, as far 
as I know, are Meffrs Turgot, Lavoifier, Tenon,, 
Heriffant, Bonnet, Senebier, Schaeffer, Roos;, 
Muller, Scarella, Troilo, befides three other 
Italians, celebrated profeflors of anatomy, who, 
having recently repeated my experiments, and 
found 
