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8th of April, without showing any plain and full reproduction. Howeverj the 

 animal continues to grow stronger and thicker. He owns it was very wrong to 

 throw away, a few days after the operation, the upper part that had been cut oft'. 

 But he did not foresee what would happen. 



November the Qth, 1772, he clipped a brown anemone through the body. 

 The basis, together with that part of the stump which was left to it, shrunk up, 

 as in fig. 5, and remained motionless where it was at first, till January 13, when 

 it shifted its place. The 15th, he very distinctly perceived 2 rows of limbs 

 growing out of the part where the section was made, fig. 6, and the animal 

 moved along. The next day he offered it bits of muscles, which it laid hold of 

 and ate. These growing limbs were, at first, of a sullied white; but they be- 

 came browner and browner every day ; and are at present of the same colour 

 with the coat of the animal. Tiiey are pretty near as large as they were before 

 the operation ; but he had not perceived, as yet, some of those small fine blue 

 knobs, that are to be seen round the rim or upper knurl of the coat, as may be 

 seen in fig. 2. As to the part cut off, seen in fig. 7, which consists of about 

 half the body, and wherein the limbs and mouth are placed, he offered it, after 

 the operation was performed, that brown part of a muscle, by the help of which 

 it moves along, and whence the beard spreads out. This bit, which is not easily 

 digested by sea-anemonies, was directly snapped up by the limbs. They drew it 

 to the mouth, which lengthened itself out to catch it, and swallowed it down. 

 But, as the body was wanting to receive it, the bit came out at the opposite end, 

 just as a man's head, being cut off", would let out at the neck the bit taken in at 

 the mouth. He offered it a 2d time, and the animal swallowed it again; but 

 threw it up at the mouth the next day. He still kept that part of the anemone, 

 which daily grew stronger and stronger, and which appeared to suck in the bits 

 of muscles he offered it. The limbs lay hold of tiiem, and the mouth takes them 

 in, either whole or in part, and throws them up a good deal altered; and pretty 

 often these bits go through as they did the first time. Some persons, who were 

 eye-witnesses of these particulars, were of opinion that, from the remains of or- 

 ganization and habit, this part of the animal still endeavoured to gratify a natural 

 want, though no longer subsisting; but Mr. D. is inclined to think that it still 

 exists. In his opinion the part is nourished by means of suckers, of which he 

 suspects it to be full, both inwardly and outwardly. He was in expectation to 

 have his conjecture confirmed by experience, and by it to be enabled to convince 

 other people. The microscope seems to have already corroborated his notion on 

 this subject. When the limbs of these anemonies, especially those of the 2d 

 species, are touched, the person's fingers are felt to adhere and strongly to stick 

 to the limbs. Mr. D. therefore let both these, and several other species of these 

 animals, fasten several times on the fingers of one of his hands, in order to see 



