258 ANIMAL REPRODUCTIONS: 
ence among the experimentalifts did not produce 
confiderable difcrepancies in their refults? Thus’ 
it has actually happened, that fome, very far from 
obtaining the reproduétion of thefe teftaceous 
animals, have beheld them die, which has given 
occafion to difpute and reject my difeovery, from . 
confidering it more imaginary than true. Others, 
having obtained only the rudiments of reproduc: ’ 
tion, have not thought it falfe but exaggerated. 
However, the reft, by obtaining ‘complete regene- 
ration of the head, have amply confirmed it. 
As the principal refults of my own experi- 
ments: were narrated in the firft memoir, : have 
now to relate thofe of others: explaining with 
amicable impartiality, as well thofe favourable to 
my caufe as thofe that are adverfe to it. But 
it fhould be obferved, that I fhall only fpeak of 
the experiments both for and againft,.that have 
appeared in print,.or which unpublifhed. have 
been communicated to me by diftinguifhed natu. 
ralifts. Although there are other experiments 
on the fubje@t, and thefe neither few, .nor made 
by men of contemptible fame, I do not confider 
them deferving of repetition, becaufe they have 
not been acknowledged by their authors, who, 
furprifed at the fingularity of the fa&, had no ob- 
ject in view, good or bad, but to make them, and 
were indifferent about committing them to writ. 
ing, much lefs to render them public. 
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