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no fuch Veflels, and confequently no fuch Pre- 

 paration of Eggs or Sperm, which are the necef- 

 fary Principles of Animals. 



Thirdly, That worthy Author of our own 

 Country, I mean Dr. Ltjler^ in his Notes upon 

 Geodartius hifeB, Numb, i6. p, 47. hath thefe 

 Words : Non e7iim indiicor tit credanty hoc, vel alt- 

 tid quodvis Animal, modo quodamfpontaneo e Plant a 

 froduci, & alii caufa cuicunque originem fuam de^ 

 here quam Farmti Animali \ i. e. / cannot be fer^ 

 fiiaded or induced to believe, that this, or any other 

 Animal, is for can be) prodiicd out of a Plant in a 

 fpontaneous manner, or doth owe its Original to any 

 other Caiife ^whatever, than an Animal Parent of its 

 own Kind. And in his third Note upon InfeB, 

 Numb, 49. thefe: .^load fpontaneam Ei^ucce hujus 

 aliorumque Inferior urn generatiojiem, pro parte ne- 

 gativa jam fententiam fneam tradidi,&cc. As to the 

 Jpontaneous Generation of this Eruca, and other In- 

 feBs, 1 have already delivered my Opinion for 'the 

 Negative, T'his is mof certain, that thefe Coffi are 

 produced of Eggs laid by Animal Pare?2ts : It is aU 

 Jh alike clear, that thefe diminutive Caterpillars are 

 able by degrees to pierce or bore their way into a 

 Tree , which very [mail Holes, after they are fully 

 enter d, do perchance grow together, and quite dif- 

 appear, at leaft become fofmally that they are not to 

 be difcern'd, unlefs by Lynceus'^ Eyes, Add more- 

 over^ that phchance they imdergo no Transfoj'wa- 

 iion, but continue under the Vizard of [Erucae] 

 Caterpillars for many Tear s^ which doth very well 



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