404 ANIMAL REPRODUCTIONS. 
éne of the moft ftriking is the conftancy with 
which nature reproduces the fame number of 
parts as thofe taken away. ‘This is particularly 
true with regard to'the hands. If three fingers 
are amputated, other three will be reproduced : if 
two are fevered, only two will originate. * I have. 
already obferved, that the confequence is lefs cer- 
tain in mutilations of the foot ; and it frequently 
occurs, that four toes are regenerated when five 
are amputated. But 1 can form no Pie ai 
on the caufe of this irregularity. 
I cut the third and fourth fingers off each hati 
of a large newt, and the five toes off the left 
foot, 31 July 1778. All the fingers and toes 
were reproduced, and grew as ufual from minute 
papilla : they gradually extended, and aflumed 
the figure and proportions peculiar to fingers and 
* toes. 
On the 27 of October, the left hand only was 
defigned, but not the right, becaufe it was quite 
fimilar, fig. 7, 7, 7, the new fingers ; although 
thefe were well proportioned and regular, they 
had not attained half the natural fize. 
It was different with the toes. The three laft, 
indeed, c,d, e, fig. 8, grew in their natural place; 
but the other two, a, 6, came above the reft, fo 
that the fecond wis above the third inftead of 
being by its fide. The figure of the foot was 
very much changed ; it was larger or {welled, J] 
mention, 
