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for recurring to the fecond mode, namely, to fome 

 germ or ovulum paffing from the air into the in- 

 iiifion, and becoming the origin and fource of fo 

 numerous a race of creatures. Such an inference 



acquires^ 



fuforiorum vere demortuorum, Vibnonem anguillulam fi 

 excipias in vltam reditus mihi fefe nullo experimento pro- 

 bavic, nee acutiffimis obfervatoribus, Spailanzani et Wrif- 

 berg fucceflit, nsque quomodo eadem revivifcant perfpicio 

 Gum corpora plcrorumque poll: exhalatam aquam rumpij 

 £t in moleculas efflari manifefte video. — ^A. 



Here Muller evidently fpeaks of eomplete death. In 

 the fecond edition of the work alluded to, the Animalcula 

 Inftiforia, fome additional remarks arc fubjoined to thefcj, 

 which the author has not proceeded to quote. — " But a- 

 drop of water being fupplied, before complete, rupture of 

 the parts, motion and life will return ; tliough, from ths 

 violence the animal has fuffiered, a degree of languor will 

 for fome. time, or always, remain. If the animalcule is 

 defended from the injuries of the air, by means of any 

 particles of dufl or fand cafually in the infufion, and the- 

 humidity not entirely exhaufted, it will recover. Some 

 are deftroyed and totally diffolved by fimple contact of 

 the air. I have feen fome decompofed on approaching 

 the edge of a drop ; and even others, amidft the rapidity 

 of their courfe, I have feen diilolve in a moment." 



Perhaps all animals are fabjcfl to inftantaneous deaths 



It is frequently found in infects. But the apparent death 



©f animalcula will often proceed from inability to movs 



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tlie members, except in water, — T, 



