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*- lanzani, though I never thought it would have 

 " been printed, which it httle delerves. 



" At another time, I have told you, Sir, but it 

 " cannot be repeated too often, my extreme piea- 

 " fure in perufmg the beautiful feries of Signior 

 " Spallanzani's experiments and obfervations. 

 " He is fit for your friend and fellow labourer. 

 " With him are found that order, that analyfis, 

 " that jufl and rigorous logic, of which your own 

 " writings affbrd an example. 



" You know that I alfo have been occupied 

 " with infufion animalcula ; and you yourfclf 

 *' have honoured me by inferring fome of my re- 

 *' fults in the repubhcation of your Palingenefie. 

 " It has pleafed me to obferve, that my experi- 

 '' ments entirely coincide with Signior Spaiian- 

 " zani's obfervations. 



" I had attempted, as he did, to repeat 

 " Mr Needham's fmgular experiment, which 

 *' confifts in introducing the halves of corn 

 " pickles into flices of clay, that they might ger- 

 *^' minate at the furface of water. I alio faw ani- 

 " malcula originate as in common infufions ; but 

 " neither difcovered thofe zoophytes, nor vege- 

 .^* table roots producing animalcula, which Mr 

 " Needham had feen rather with the eyes of an 

 " imagination heated by the love of theory, thail 

 *^' with the calm fenfes of a philofopher, 



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