380 ANIMAL REPRODUCTIONS. 
tion, 13 September. I could eafily recognife - 
them for the rudiments of four new fingers. Yet, 
from the danger of deception, I fufpended my 
opinion ; however, as evolution fenfibly advan- 
ced, four fmall well fhaped fingers arofe, which 
it was impoflible to miftake, fig. 21. Them ar- 
rangement is irregular, for the firft and fecond 
feem united, and the diftance’ between them is a ~ 
little lefs than between the two laft, ¢, d. 
Behold a hand with five fingers, though na- 
ture has given the animal only four. However, 
it is not uncommon to meet with fuch anomalies 
in thefe reproductions. Sig. Spallanzani has ob- 
ferved many, which he will defcribe with his 
ufual acutenefs and perfpicuity. It is evident, 
that the place where the cut is made, the mode 
of making jit, the ftate of the part itfelf, and of 
parts connected, may give birth to infinite varie- 
ties and fingularities ; and fome will be real mon- 
ftrofities, either by defect, excefs, or tranfpofi- 
tion. 
It muft be obferved, that in this cafe, repro- 
duétion was not announced by one papilla only, 
as in the firft two experiments, but by four very 
minute, and quite diftinct, ranged in the fame 
line, and in the direction in which the inftru- 
ment had performed the operation. 7 
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