•Xlvi INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS., 



abfolutely of the fame kind ; at leaft, we cannot 

 affirm that it is entirely fo. — Eds, it is well 

 known, exhibit fymptoms of life in the various 

 divided parts. Ihey are killed by dalhing a- 

 p^ainfl: the ground. Ofbeck fays, the greater dog 

 fifli will move about, though the head or tail is 

 cut off ; nay, that it lives more than an hour af- 

 ter the intcflines are taken out. Lyonet faw mo- 

 tion in the abdomen of a wafp, three days after 

 feparation from the reft ; and a caterpillar crawl- 

 ed about fevcral days after the head was cut off. 

 From thefe and other experiments, he remarks^ 

 that the foul of animals, if they have any, is ex- 

 tended over the whole body j and every part 

 feems capable of evincing confcioufnefs and fen- 

 fation. The headlefs caterpillar endeavoured to 

 efcape ; it had the fame motions as before decol- 

 lation. The anterior half of a divided wafp bit 

 every thing prefented to it. The middle part of 

 an earth worm, deprived of both ends, expediti- 

 oully moved away when touched. The fame con- 

 clufions are made by Sue, in his Refearches on • 

 Vitality. A decollated turkey feemed to have 

 fpontaneous motions. The body of a butterfly . 

 cpntinued to fly as ufual, among the flowers, 

 t;\yenty minutes after the head was cut off. A 

 decapitated beetle will advance over a table, 

 groping its way, and recognize a precipice on 

 approaching the edge. Reverfed on its back, it 



will 



