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alive, and often ufed what was ejected during 

 copulation. The importance of thele fatts, in 

 the illuftration of this refearch, will be evident 

 to the reader of the following chapters. 



JLETTpR Fi OM M. BONNET. 



In the Country, 16 OSlober 1771, 

 I ACCEDE to your requeft, my efleemed cor- 

 refpondent, and h .iten to inform you that I have 

 received the excellent letter, which Is owing to 

 your friendfhip for the Paliiigenefifl. — Excellent 

 book I fhould fay ; it is almofl; fuch in fize, and 

 fhall be added to thofe of the fame kind with 

 which you have already enriched my library. I 

 could not engrofs to myfelf a work almofl every 

 line of which has excited the deepeft attention, 

 but determined to revife it along with an ob- 

 fcrver worthy to underftand and to imitate you, 

 and who can equally well appreciate your inter- 

 efting refearches and fortunate difcoveries. I 

 mean my worthy friend, the illuftrious difcpverer 

 of polypi. Yeflerday we perufed it together : I 

 am unable to defcribe how much your experi- 

 ments delighted us ; at fome other opportunity, 

 when you give me more leifure, I fhall fpeak of 

 them. But M. Trembley and myfelf are mofl 

 defirous, that your obfervations and experiments 

 on Infufions, Vermiculi, the Plantulse of Mould, 

 and the other fubjed:s you have treated with fo 



much 



