fl, SEMINAL VERMICUH. iL%^ 



CixVi with fo much fatisfadion, and congratulate 

 myfelffor having induced you to ftudy them. 

 The obfervations are invahiable : they are both 

 new and accurate. Would that I could reani- 

 mate the worthy Leeuwenhoeck! What pleafurc 

 would it afford him to fee M. de Buifon's attack 

 fo well repelled ! I hope he will now be philo- 

 fopher enough to acknowledge that his micros 

 fcopes have not done him juftice, and yield to 

 your evidence. 



\ our mould is almoil as new as your vermi- 

 cuH. — But I forget that I am beginning to an- 

 fwer your interefting letter in detail : if it is con- 

 tinued, you will not fo foon know that I have re* 

 ceived it. I therefore end, with renewing the ajf- 

 furance of my inviolable regard, 



BoNNETc 



CHAPe I. 



J5ESCRIPTI0N OF THE SEMINAL VERMICULI OE JVIjAN, 

 AND VARIOUS OTHER ANIMALS. 



1 HE feminal fluid, taken from a dead human 



body, December 2 1 , refembled coagulated milk 



^n colour and confiftence (i). Examined with a 



JTiagnifier^ 

 (1) Thermometer 48^, 



