I, ANIMALCULA OF INFUSIONS. 27I 



' p^iiofopher be forgot to whom I am indebted 

 ' for the corre6lion. I had paid too great atten- 



* tion to the folar rays, which feem to have daz- 



* zled me. However it is to be wifhed, that this 

 ' may give an opening to dired: experiments ; it 

 ' would be worth while to make them. I fhall 



* meditate anew on the fubje£l, as if I had never 



* attended to it before. In addition, 1 made other 

 ' two conditions intervene, the extreme rarenefs 



* of the texture, and its fimplicity or homoge.^ 

 ' neity : pliancy and duenlity were produced by 



* the firft ; the fecond occafioned a certain de- 



* gree of refillance to a certain degree of heat. 



* The connexion of the elements of the texture 



* paffed unnoticed. But I repeat, that all this is 

 ' an old fpoll, of which I divell: myfelf. My 



* heart fhall never be refractory to truth.' 



Thus you perceive, my dear Malpighi, that I 

 intend to refieft anew on this interefling fubjed. 

 I invite you to refledion on your part; and I am 

 convinced your meditations will not be fruitlefs : 

 furely they will fuggeft: new experiments, which 

 mull be more inilruftive, therefore more fatisfac- 

 tory, than our meditations. 



Since you are determined to print my long 

 lerter at the end of the Diflertation which you 

 are now compofmg, will you be good er.':^' gh 

 to add what I fay concerning my hypothefis on 

 the indellrudibility of infufion animalcula ? I 



doubt 



