330 ANIMAL REPRODUCTIONS, 
decided that the newt reproduced but a ftump 3 
while the ftump was the member itfelf, where 
nothing effential was defective, and it had juft to 
acquire the fize of that which it replaced. 
Thus M. Adanfon was as much deceived con- 
cerning newts as concerning {nails ; and the mif- 
takes of fuch a naturalift are a good leflon to 
thofe who have neither his knowledge nor his 
ability. Iam convinced that he will acknow- 
ledge his error, for 1 know him to be a fincere 
friend to truth; and ftand in no fear of re- 
proach for having laid it open it in this little trea- 
tife. 
M. de Bomare, no lefs a friend to truth, and 
whofe experiments have been as unfuccefsful as 
thofe of M. Adanfon, was confequently equally 
incredulous. I had referred him to the fame let- 
ter from the Italian obferver, printed in the Avant 
Coureur, 30 October 1769; and, on the 5 of 
November 1775, he replted—* You afk me why 
« [ have not anfwered one of the articles of a for- 
‘mer letter refpecting the reprodution of the 
‘ head of the fnail. I can anfwer you, that all 
* the experiments which I haye attempted on this 
¢ fubject feem adverfe to thofe of Sig. Spallanza- 
‘ni. You will fee, at the article Limagon of my 
§ Dictionary, what I have faid on the fubjeét, and 
§ which I mentioned before in 1768.’ I fhall tran- 
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