384 ANIMAL REPRODUCTIONS: 
Thofe of the regenerated part had a peculiar 
tranfparency, wanting in the reft of the tail (1). 
Ctr it RESULTS AND REFLECTIONS.— 
Other experiments have been made on newts, 
which confirm the firft, but I pafs them in filence; 
to avoid repetitions and the multiplicity of de- 
tails. What I have faid, feems fufficient for my 
principal object, which is only to eftablifh the — 
difcovery of my illuftrious friend the Abbé Spal+ 
Janzani, When his large work appears, naty- 
ralifts will there behold with aftonifhment, the 
various prodigies for which we are indebted to 
the fingular fagacity of this celebrated obferver, 
and of which this little tra€t can give but a very 
imperfect idea. So much inferior to the fub- 
je&t dol find my own experiments, that I never 
fhould have thought of publifhing them, had not 
new confirmation been defired, and had not the 
Abbé himfelf wifhed my teftimony in addition 
to his. I next proceed to deduce fome’ general 
. refults 
(1) Had not the fear of cio, my eyes:too much 
deterred me; 1 fhould have endeavoured to compare the 
new limbs with the old, by diffection, and the fame with , 
refpect to the head of the fnail. But, i in niy opinion, the fim- 
ple narrative of fads, or infpection of the figures, are ff 
ficient to demonftrate the reality of the reproauenens, 
and the fimilarity: of the new members to the old, 
