350 ANIMAL REPRODUCTIONS. | 
— One moft convincing proof’ = 
that the {nails began to feed. 
The rame evidence was given by one of the fnails: 
decollated by M. Senebier, an illuftrious Gene- 
van, who has publifhed an excellent treatife on 
The Art of Obfervation. His precepts have been 
enhanced by example ; for he has enriched ph 
lofophy with the beft experimental inquiries, and 
lately with Memoirs on the influence of folar light 
on the three kingdoms of Nature. ‘There could 
be no doubt of complete decapitation, for he dif- 
fected the fevered heads.. 
It cannot be fuppofed that the experiments of € 
his countryman were lefs convincing, that is, of 
Bonnet, whofe works conftitute the delight and . 
admiration .of the age. How many precautions 
did he not adopt, to be beyond:the thafts of his. 
adverfaries |. What precifion did he not ufe to 
afcertain that the head: was fevered! What affli- - 
duity, care, and diligence, in minutely obferving 
the phenomena of the reproducing head! With 
what evidence and impartiality does he not de- 
monftrate reproduction!. But thefe important 
facts will be highly enjoyed by thofe who confult 
the memoirs of that philofopher: for lam well 
aware that any fketch or extra&t’ of mine would 
be but a faint and languid perhelion. { 
I fhould ftill have to {peak of the three letters. 
from Sig. Caldani, Pratolongo, and Girardi, did 
I not 
