362 ANIMAL REPRODUCTIONS. 
fame, or analogous wonders (1). I was the ‘firft 
who had the good fortune to verify this predic- 
tion, and it was foon confirmed by the moft ce- 
lebrated obfervers (2). Various fpecies of frefh- 
water worms, earth-worms, fea-nettles, and fea- 
ftars, reproduced like the polypus, from fec- 
tions (3). Thefe difcoveries were an immenfe 
addition to the riches of organic philofophy, and 
an inexhauttible fource of meditation for the phi- 
lofopher. But we had not then attained their 
limits. New prodigies, perhaps more wonder- 
ful ftill, were to be unveiled to naturalifts; and 
to the illuftrious Abbé Spallanzani was the dif- 
covery referved. It is already evident, that I 
particularly allude to the regeneration of the 
head of the fnail, and the members of water 
newts. People have doubted, nay, they yet con- 
tinue to doubt, thefe beautiful difcoveries, and ad- 
ditional confirmations feem to be defired by the 
impartial public. I have begun to give fome in 
my Memoirs on the reproduced head of {nails ; 
and there, in my opinion, is the reality of that. 
xeproduction 
{1) In the year 1740, Memoives fur les Palypes, by M. 
Trembley. Leyden, 1744, 4to. 
(2) In 1741, Traite d’Infectologie, Part 2. Paris, 17455 
3yo. . 
(3) Reaumur, Memoires fur les Infecies, T, 6. Preface, 
page 49. Edit. ato. 
