134 ANirvIALCU4.A OF INFUSIONS. I. 



being almoil completed, they were tranfmuted 

 jnto two entire and well formed animalcula. 

 One remained attached to the filament, and, in 

 a fhort time, became as large as the whole, and, 

 by new divihons, gave birth to new animals. 

 The other had no filament ; it rapidly traverfecj - 

 the fluid, contrafted, extended, and an appen- 

 dage foon budded from the pollerior part, which 

 was the rudiments of the filament. With this 

 the animalcule fixed itfelf to ion\e furrounding 

 fubftances : the filament lengthened, and the ani- 

 malcule began to divide again. In fig. 3. pi. i. 

 are the various degrees of divifion. 



Thefe animalcula fometimes perifli when ifq- 

 lated in dillilled water ; and the like may be faid 

 of all that divide : however they often divide and 

 fubdivide, ftili their glaffes are never populous ; 

 but the numbers encreafe exceedingly, if portions 

 of vegetable matter are mixed with the diftilled 

 water. Privation of food in the pne cafe, and 

 abundance in the other, is undoubtedly the caufe 

 of this difference. 



Buib animalcula not only inhabit boiled but 

 alfo unboiled infufions of kidney beans, and ma- 

 ny other legumes, as lentils, beans, and peafe. No- 

 thing more is required for the convenient obfer- 

 vation of their propagation than to macerate a 

 few particles of feeds. In two or three days, if 

 the experiment is made in fummer, feme animaU 



cula 



