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the origin of the new fingers, which is very evi- 
dent, r. On the firft of September, a fecond 
finger began to grow befide the other, and on 
the fourth, this hand, which had been cut longi- 
tudinally, was as it is reprefented fig. 19. The 
two fingers which replace thofe amputated, r, r. 
On the fame day, the new hand growing from 
the left arm, was nearly as fig. 10. 
This experiment is attended by a moft re- 
markable confequence ; that a hand, longitudi- 
nally divided, fhould reproduce exaétly the am- 
putated part, and reproduce it both in the man- 
ner and place moft confonant to its natural 
figure and funttions. 
The hand was defigned anew, 9 September, 
that one may judge better of the pofition of the 
regenerated fingers and the progrefs of their evo- 
lution, fig. 20. : 
Experiment V. An oblique fedion of the 
hand, fo that only one finger remained.—It would 
be too precipitate to conclude, from the preced- 
ing experiment, that nature never reproduces 
more than the portion amputated, and fhe her- 
felf would difclaim it. Neverthelefs, decifive ex- 
periments prove the fac. On the 21 of Auguft, 
I cut the right hand of a newt, in fuch a man- 
per as to leave only the firft finger. Four very 
jninute papille appeared on the edge of the fec- 
tion, 
