426 ANIMAL REPRODUCTIONS, 
Experiment V. The hands and feet of anew? 
longitudinally divided.—On the 15 of July 17795 
1 divided the hands and feet of a large newt lon- 
gitudinally. Mould foon appeared on the wounds: 
but by removing it with a pencil, and renewing 
the water, I faved the members. | 
The halves of the right hand and foot re-unit- 
ed: and the enormous wounds were fo com- 
pletely cicatrifed, that it was impoflible to obferve 
the place of junétion, at leaft in the hands; 
however, I thought | could perceive a long fuper+ 
ficial furrow which might be it. 
The left foot had loft the middle toe by the 
operation. But in a few weeks, there was dif- 
covered, in the middle of the foot, an extremely 
minute papilla among the four toes, which an- 
nounced a new toe to fupply the place of that 
deftroyed. 
I foon obferved a fimilar papilla among the 
fingers of the left hand, which was recognifed as 
a medius, unfolding exactly where the middle fin- 
ger is ina hand with five fingers. But newts 
have only four ; therefore, by a longitudinal fec- 
tion, this newt acquired five on one hand, and 
my object was happily accomplifhed. 
The new toe was a full line in length; the new 
finger only half a line. Both the hand and foot 
were then defigned, fig. a »12. Inconfequence 
of dividing the hand, the fecond finger is farther 
from 
