406 ANIMAL REPRODUCTIONS. 
The new members were no longer on the 6 
of March than they would have been in fix 
weeks, or two months, in fummer, fig. 9, 10, 
the originating arm 4, the thigh c. Thus they 
were only two ftumps, after an interval of fix 
months. , 
Two fingers were growing at the extremity of 
the arm, 9 April, and three well fhaped toes per- 
ceptible at the extremity of the leg, d, c, fig. 11, 
12. The fourth toe, juft begum to appear, fig. 
12, correfponds with fig. 7 of the firft memoir. 
In the following month the newt died, which 
interrupted my obfervations on the courfe of re- 
production. 
ExpeRIMENT VIII. The tail of a newt divid- 
ed longitudinally.—We have feen the effect of a 
tranfverfe fection in the fixth experiment of the 
preceding Memoir. It has already been remark- 
ed, that the tail is formed of a feries of fmall ver- 
tebree or officles, and has blood veflels, nerves, 
flefh and mufcles. Therefore this is a very com- 
plicated member ; and we immediately compre- 
hend how admirable its reproduction from a 
tranfverfe fection muft be: for not only are the 
veffels, nerves, and mufcles then reproduced, but 
likewife offeous parts of intricate ftructure articu- 
lated together, and playing on each other. Yet 
how many parts, both foft and hard, of much 
more 
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