378 ANIMAL REPRODUCTIONS. 
26. At the end of each trunk, a new finger ap. 
peared, 20 Auguft. The fingers, m, m, are de- 
figned, fig. 15. The whole magnified is more 
diftin&, fig. 16. The fingers have yet grown 
very little. 
The five toes are magnified, fig. 17. Confi- 
derable part of three that had loft about one 
half, is already reproduced, and the new pro- 
dudtion is at the extremity of the old portion, 
a,a. An irregular curve, feparating the two 
parts, is very confpicuous here, and evinces that 
the old portion has grown none. 
EXPERIMENT IV. The right hand of a newt 
longitudinally divided, and two fingers amputat- 
ed. The other hand cut tranfverfely.—On the 
third of Auguft, I made a longitudinal incifion _ 
through the right hand of a large newt, in fuch 
a manner as to feparate two of the fingers. At — 
the fame time, [ amputated the other hand in eh, 
middle, by a tranfverfe fection. 
The left ftump exhibited the ufual conical pa- 
pilla on the 22. It began to divide on the 30; 
and three originating fingers became diftin@ly 
vifible. 
On the fame day, a new finger appeared on 
the fide of the right hand. Two of the fingers 
had been left entire, a, a, fig. 18. <A fenfible | 
eminence, ¢, on the fection of the hand, preceded 
the 
