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V \t morning, the Ixxly. much reduced, hung perpendicularly down 

 the .-ide ot' tin- vessel, while tin- rylindt-r protruded along with some 

 inte.-tiuul portion ; ami this prolapsus gradually augmented. Yet the 

 brunches were still partially unfolded in the feeblest exercise. Pluto 

 VI 11. lig. 3. 



In the evening the whole organic mass separated from the body, 

 and fell into a \vatdi-glass which had been introduced to receive it. 



When extricated from its convolutions, the intestine proved to be 

 ju-t live inches loii^ by a line in diameter, nearly equal throughout, but 

 enlarging slightly from the cylinder. Now, the hard or shelly portion 

 w;is discovered to con.-i.-t of the union of a circle of hollow tlattish piece-. 

 The Ampulla Pttliana, Plate XI. fig. 7. hung from below. Such organs 

 without the ovurium, commonly appear somewhat as Plate XI. fig. 8, 

 which shews the intestinal parts separated from another specimen. The 

 separate arborescent apparatus of one is seen, Plate XII. fig. 3 : and the 

 shelly sheath, a, I ; Ampulla Poiiana, c ; and intestine (of another), fig. 4. 

 Here the dark belt denotes the lower part of the tentacula. Only a por- 

 tion of the cylinder, with its tentacular sheaths, was preserved. 



The tufts formed by the contracted tentacula still testified a ten- 

 dency to their ordinary functions, spite of separation from the body. 



Next day the sac or integument which had contained all the inte- 

 rior, adhered slightly to the side ; on the subsequent morning, it lay at 

 the bottom of the vessel A yellow bunch of filaments, constituting the 



mated or immature ovarium, protruded from the anterior extremity. 

 It resembled a mass of coarse threads, some of them folded double ; and 

 this also separated with a brown intestinal portion. Remarkable enough 

 to observe, the animal, under so great a mutilation, yet shifted its place, 

 but weakening more, and shortening to an inch, it was transferred to 

 spirit of wine, wherein it scarcely contracted farther with the extinction 

 of life. 



This specimen survived exactly twenty-two months under observa- 

 tion. Had it remained in its native abode, or had it been even in a 

 vigorous condition at the date of the latter, the second intestinal priva- 

 tion, there is much probability that the important organs then lost would 



