ANIMAL REPRODUCTIONS. 375 
In two or three days, | remarked a new cleft 
at the upper extremity of the papilla, which was 
' the beginning of a new finger: the third, in its 
turn, appeared on the nineteenth. ‘The conical 
papilla had then difappeared ; and in its place was 
feen a {mall open hand with four fingers, {till very 
minute, but quite well fhaped. It is drawn from 
nature, fuch as it then was, fig. 10. That papil- 
la, from which originated a new arm, gradually 
extended at firft it was fimilar to the papilla, c, 
fig. 1. but towards the end of July, or beginning 
of Auguft, it increafed fo much as to refemble 
that of fig. 2. exactly. 
On the third of Auguft, the cone began to di- 
vide, that is, two fingers became evident, fig. 
z1. Clofe examination is required, for the divi. 
fion of the fingers is hardly vifible, 1.: the 
trunk ft, 
On the ninth, a hand extremely minute, but 
the moft beautiful objet imaginable, was obferv- 
ed at the extremity of the arm. The fingers, 
all of unequal length, were diftinguifhed, the 
fmalleft being juft perceptible. This is corre€tly 
defigned, fig. 12. The trunk ¢, or part -of the 
original arm, is connected to the body. It may 
be recognifed by the brown colour, and from be: 
ing covered with white points. The new arm 6 is 
of a lighter and uniform colour. Four fingers 
Aa4 of 
