of Vegetables. 



fome, the {b) Change of Shape in 

 others tipon their feeming Death, 

 and the utmoft Extent of the pro- 

 greffive Motion of each Animalcule, 

 which exceeds not the (c) Diameter of 

 a Hair, be confidered attentively, with 

 all the Confequences that may be 

 drawn from them ; particularly, if 

 we add that thefe Alterations muft 

 be owing to iome interior Change 

 depending upon a hidden Mechanifm, 

 and not to their extream Tender- 

 nefs, as Mr. Lewenhoeck imagines ; 



fince 



" Particulas has oviformes exiftlmavi animal- 

 <c cula elTe difrupta, quod particular has difruptse- 

 " quadruplo fere viderentur majores corporibu& 

 " animalculorum vivorum. 1 ' Ibid, idem de iifdem 

 animalculis. 



{b) " Corpus horum ultimorum animalculorum. 

 *i fepius figura mutari animadverti, prasfertim 

 " evaporata humida materia, in qua eadem ani- 

 *' malia vivunt, Sc natant," Idem de animalculi* 

 in femine Canis. Tom. 3. pag. 160. 



" Ex tot millibus animalculorum, quae Ari- 

 " etum tefticulis exempta, a fe invicem fepara 

 " vi, ac quorum pleraque etiamnum apud me 

 " funt, nullum cernere licuit, quod difruptum, 

 " fuerit ; verum fsepius comperi eorum corpora, 

 f? dum fuccus exhalaretur, plana reddi." idem. 

 Tom. 3. pag. 309. 



(c) " Hicce progreffus nonmajus habebat fpatium, 

 **' quam quod cspilli diajiietrum sequaret." Id. Ib. 



" Non 



