434 ANIMAL REPRODUCTIONS. 
_fe&tly renewed, that no veftige exifted of the un- 
common operation that the animal; had under- 
gone. During the remainder of this and the 
following month, the cornea always became more 
tranfparent ; and now, when I write thefe re- 
marks, 8 November 1780, it is equally perfec& 
as the other: but the reproduced eye feems a 
little fmaller than the entire one; and the ‘iris, or 
olden circle, goes only half round the ball (1). 
It would {till be neceflary to extract the repro- 
duced eye, to afcertain, by diffection, whether it 
contains a chryftalline lens fimilar to the origi- 
nal. But I confefs, that, as yet, I have not had 
refolution to fubje& the newt to the moft bar- 
barous of all operations; and I fhall probably | 
await its death for fatisfying my curiofity. | 
A newt is mentioned in: the fecond memoir, 
which had loft the regenerated members four 
times, and had taken no food for feveral months. 
It became fo much emaciated, that the joints of 
the fingers could be feen through the flefh. The 
head 
(1) According to Blumenbach’s obfpeations, this ex: 
periment has failed when the whole globe of the. eye 
was extracted. In fix months, after difcharging the hu- 
mours, and cutting out the tunics, the eye was reproduc+ 
ed. Even after eleven months had elapfed, it was not fo: 
large as the cther, Specimen Phyfiologia Comparate.—T.. 
ike) 
