312 ANIMAL. REPRODUCTIONS. 
the feparation had gone far beyond the head. # 
was anxious to learn the confequence, which he 
was pleafed to communicate in the following pe 
ragraph. | 
‘ I decapitated the res that you faw on the 1p. 
‘ of May laft year,. fully four lines behind the 
‘large horns. In the fevered head were not on- 
‘ly the mufcles, and all the nerves connected to: 
* the oval globe, the falival ducts, brain, &c. but 
‘behind. them the anterior portion of the male 
‘organs, and more than half the appendages of 
‘the uterus, including the angular part of the 
‘ ovary, fo that I thought it impoffible that thefe 
‘ reptiles could reproduce the mutilations. After 
‘ keeping one, in which the cut had even gone: 
* further, a long time in my hand, and immerging 
‘it long in water,. within thefe few days it ap- 
* peared f{tretching out its neck. The rudiments. 
* of the large horns were evident at the extremity, 
‘ and below them the lips and mouth. Almoft 
* difcrediting my fenfes, 1 was ftrongly tempted 
‘to diffect the {nail to fee the internal. reproduc- 
‘tion ; but the external parts being incomplete,, 
“1 refolved to defer my examinatiof. I have 
“fince kept.it {hut up in the fame box.where you 
© faw it, that 1 may difcover in future what per-~ 
‘ fe€tion the external parts will-attain, 
Parma, 
* 13 January 1784,” . 
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