280 ANIMAL REPRODUCTIONS. 
* fhagreen fkin repaired. Your’s, CALDANI. Pas 
* dua, 27th December 1783.” | 
Next is a letter from Sig. Pratolongo. 
* By your Reverence’s moft obliging letter, I 
* underftand that you defire fome information 
* concerning my obfervations on the reproduc. . 
‘ tion of fnails. This I confider an exprefs com- 
‘mand, which I the more willingly obey, as I 
‘ have the pleafure of numbering myfelf among — 
€ thofe who have confirmed your difcovery. 
* My experiments were made in 1780, in con- 
¢ fequence of feveral anonymous letters in jour- 
* nals publifhed here, where I was defied to fhow 
‘ the reproduction of the head of fnails, decapi- 
* tated, when I firft came to this city, Being 
‘ unable to fatisfy their curiofity, becaufe all thefe 
¢ reptiles had perifhed, from the bran, I believe, 
¢ where I had incautioufly put them, entirely co- 
¢ yering them ; and reflecting that it would be to 
‘no purpofe, referring to the fuccefsful experi- 
< ments of Muller Roos, Schaeffer, Bonnet, La- 
‘ voifier, and other moft accurate naturalifts, 
‘who confirmed this difcovery, I refolved to 
* repeat my experiments. 
¢ On the 10 of July, the time reputed moft fa- 
‘ yourable for reproduction, I took twelve {nails 
‘of the fpecies called Pomatia by Linnzus in 
‘his Fauna Suecica, and fimilar to thofe which ] 
‘ fent your Reverence laft year. Anxious that my 
* experiments 
