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the animal became enfeebled and nearly dead, with this 

 instrument extended. I therefore put a piece of paper 

 gently under it, and took it from the water, and dried it 

 with this organ in good preservation. The other parts were 

 also in great perfection^ and as I did not know such another 

 ojjportunity would offer, the sketch was finished at the 

 time. The feelers put us in mind of the nectariferous ray* 

 in a Pass'iflora, 



