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be perfuaded that the fpermatlc animals were not 

 the very fame ; and they imagined that I had 

 forgotten to change the objed-glafs, or rather, 

 that the fame pick-tooth with which the drops 

 of the female fluid were colleded, had alfo been 

 employed in colleding thofe of the male. Mr 

 Needham, therefore, changed both the objeft- 

 glafs and the pick-tooth, and took a freih drop 

 from the fiflure of the glandulous body, and ex- 

 amined it firfl: with his own eyes. He again fiw 

 the very fame moving bodies, and was fully 

 convinced, not only of the exiftence of fperma- 

 tlc animals in the feminal fluid of the female, 

 but alfo of their refemblance to thofe in the fe- 

 menjof the male. We repeated the experiment 

 with frefli drops no lefs than ten times, in all of 

 which the phaenomena were exadly the fame. 



E X P E R. XXVII. 



Having the -xamined the other teflicle, I 

 found ar. imripc {landulous body, which was 

 fmaller, an/ lefs red than the former, and had 

 no fiflure ; but, after opening it with a fcalpel, 

 I found no liquor. Upon the external furface 

 of this tcfl:icle, th :re were fome lymphatic vefi- 

 cles. I pierced one of them with a lancet, and 

 there iflflied a clear liquor, to which I imme- 

 diately applied the microfcope. But it con- 

 tained nothing fimilar to what we difcoyered in 



that 



