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least degree incommoded. *'I have seen," he says, 

 in his fourth memoiiv " a i)olypus turned inside-out, 

 whicli has eaten a little worm two days after the 

 operation. Others have not recovered their appetite 

 so quickly; they have been four or five days, more O" 

 less, without wanting to eat. Alter that time tiiey 

 ate as well as other polyps which had retained their 

 proper insides. I liave kept a polyp that had been 

 turned inside-out more than two years. His progeny 

 had become very numerous. Once, when I had suc- 

 cessfully turned a few polyps, I was impressed to 

 repeat the experiment in 'the presence of good ob- 

 servers, that I might be able to cite other evidence 

 than my own in proof of this strange fact. I succeeded 

 so well that others attempted to follow my example. 

 Monsieur Allamand, whom I begged to try, suc- 

 ceeded as well as myself. He has turned many 

 polyps, and some that he experimented upon have 

 remained inside-ont and continued to live. He has 

 even done more than this : he has turned polypi again 

 which had been turned some time before, and this 

 although they had eaten after the first experiment. 

 He even found that they ate as well after the second 

 operation. Finally, he turned some a third time, but 

 they died alter a few days, without having recovered 

 their appetites. Whether their decease was owing 

 to the operation or not cannot very well be decided." 



