2l6 . ANIMALCULA OF INFUSIONS. % 



I return to the original tranfparency of orga- 

 nifed beings, concerning v/hlch your lower orders 

 of animalcula have given me fcope for refledion. 

 In my Conjiderations fur les Corps Organifes, Par-t 

 I. ch. 9. yoa have feen the accurate difcoverias 

 of Haller, and the different confequences that 

 feem to flow direclly from them. Thefe difco- 

 veries, which have gone for to perfeft our knov/- 

 ledge of'generation, form a feries of fads, which 

 I have ranged in a certain order, to prefent them 

 with more preclfion and regularity to the mind. 

 The fecond faft is thus expreffed r — ' The folid 

 ' parts of the chicken are at firft fluid : the fluid 

 ' gradually infpiffates and becomes a jelly : the 

 ' bones themfelves fuccefiively pafs through the 

 ' fluid and gelatinous ilate. On the feventh day 

 * of incubation, the cartilages are ftill gelatinous : 

 ' on the eighth, the brain is but a tranfparent 

 ' water, and is undoubtedly organized. Mean- 

 ' time the foetus already moves its members. 

 ' The veffels having become larger, admit gummy 

 ' albuminous molecules, which are attraded to- 

 ' wards them. The more the proximity of the 



' element 



impugned fonie, and laments his not having extended his 



criticifm on the moft important topics in the work A.,- 



M. Bonnet was indeed the author of this anonymous 

 work; he afterwards acknowledged it; and republifiied it 

 in the coiledlion of all his works in 9 vols, 4:0, — T 



