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projetée en dehors par la courte ouverture 



du manteau ou sac de ranimai. Cette vessie , 



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milky juice. This was an oval bag, in which the milt 

 v«ssels formée! them selves graduaîly , llie bag im- 

 foldi ng as thèse framed an disposed tbern selves in 

 bundles. Beforc that time he liad observed two colla- 

 téral tubes ? which are alike in both sexes ; but a 

 reguiar progress in the expansion of the milt-bag and. 

 formation of the raiit-vessels liad not presented it self 

 before. Those tubes til then appeared o.pen at one 

 extremity , musch ressembling the female parts of 

 génération in a snail , but did not terminate in along 

 oval bag extending in a parrallel with the stomach 

 more than half the lengih of the fish , as lie found 

 them afterwards when the milt vessels that fiiled the 

 whole cavity were ripe for éjection. Th-e same ducts 

 without the bag are found in the female also, perhaps 

 for the déposition of the spawn». ( Vid. Ncedham's 

 microscopical ; Discoveries, cap. 5.) 



w It appears from this account that the maie caîa- 

 inary (at a certain time of the year only ) has a bag 

 whereiu the milt vessels are contained , and that the 

 female has no such bag. Since therefore the bag of our 

 polypus is found in the same situation as lhat of the 

 caïamary ( which is also a kind of polypus ) , we may 

 suppose it to be the milt bag , and that our polypus is 

 a maie , taken at a time when the milt was ready for 

 éjection. In the dried spécimen at the british muséum , 

 and also in the other spécimens , there is thesame. 

 opening, with the pipe that rises above it towardsthe 

 arms,but not the ieastappearence ofthe bag in ques- 



