ANIMAL REPRODUCTIONS. 349 
‘ With refpect to the reproductions of newts, 
* you tell me that you firmly credit the renewal 
‘ of the fingers and their bones, fo long as the 
* anterior or pofterior part of the arm is not cutoff. 
- © Tregret that you have written this, before per- 
€ ufing my treatife on the Reproductions of Newts. 
© There you would have feen that I amputated 
* the fingers, the hands, the cubit, whole arms, 
“legs, feet, and thighs ; and that all thefe mem- 
* bers were perfectly regenerated by the animals. 
‘ This would have induced you to put more con- 
© fidence in the beautiful difcoveries of the Abbé 
‘ Spallanzani on fnails and newts. My treatife 
‘ was printed in Rofier’s Yournal, laf Novem. 
© ber; and I wonder that you, who refide in the 
¢ fame place where it is publifhed, have not pro- 
‘cured it. The figures, added to the memoir, 
‘ are very accurate ; but the defigns were fupe- 
‘rior to the engravings. It will prefent you 
‘ with fats, which, I hope, in a little time, you 
¢ will not oppofe. See, therefore, and believe.’ 
The letter from Signor Spallanzani on the 
mode of operation, to which M. Adanfon had 
paid lefs attention than it deferved, is fo well a- 
dapted to convince naturalifts of the reality of the 
ingenious difcovery which it defcribes, that I. 
cannot avoid tranfcribing it here, as the beft re- 
futation that may be oppofed to the detractors of 
this difcovery, and as a model of the method 
that 
