ANIMAL GRAFTS AND REGENERATIONS. 233 
life ceased. Not long ago, Philippeaux noted the entire 
restoration of the spleen in animals from which that organ 
had been removed. 
Charles Legros, who has undertaken of late years many 
interesting experiments upon regenerations, has discovered 
that time takes an important part in these phenomena. 
The tail of a lizard grows out again rapidly as to its out- 
ward shape; in two or three months the severed organ re- 
appears with its usual length and thickness; but the inte- 
rior is unlike that of regular tails, containing, as it does, 
nerves, muscles, and vessels, but no vertebrae. This text- 
ure remains unaltered for a long time, and naturalists had 
inferred from this that the bones of the lizard’s tail are not 
reproduced. Legros has watched the advance of develop- 
ment in this organ for several years continuously, and has 
noted the appearance of vertebree at the end of two years. 
This savant experimented with green lizards. The re- 
stored tail continued gray for a long time, and did not as- 
sume the color of the rest of the body before the beginning 
_of the third year. In another case Legros cut off the tail 
of a dormouse at the beginning of winter. The wound 
shaped itself into a sort of pad, which lengthened, became 
covered with hair, and attained nearly the same length as 
the original tail, which it surpassed in thickness. Un- 
luckily, the animal’s hibernation was not perfect; it fre- 
quently awoke, and at the end of three months it died. 
There had been no opportunity for a complete restoration 
of the inner parts of the organ. 
To these recent observations must be added these made 
quite lately on the crawfish by Chantran. This skillful and 
patient observer remarked that in the case of the crawfish the 
antennz grow out during the time that intervenes between 
one shedding: of the shell and the next, that is, in an inter- 
val varying, according to the creature’s age, from six weeks 
to six months. ane claws and the tail-plates are also re-. 
