Of the Farina Fcecundam 

 effe&ual in the Production of this 

 Adtion, as I imagine all Acids will, 

 convinced me, that it mult depend 

 upon a Mechanifm entirely latent, 

 and not attainable even by Con- 

 jecture in Bodies fo very diminu- 

 tive. 



This is all I have as yet been able 

 to difcover concerning this Pheno- 

 menon of the Farina foecundans. To 

 conclude therefore thefe Obfervations, 

 which have fomething of a mutual 

 Relation, before I enter upon others 

 of a different Nature, in fuch a 

 Manner, that nothing may be omit- 

 ted which is pertinent to them, it 

 will not be improper to remark, that 

 whoever impugns this feeming Ana- 

 logy between the Animal and Ve- 

 getable World, which I think I can 

 reafonably infer from the precedent 

 Difcoveries, by endeavouring to prove, 

 that what has been hitherto taken 

 for Animalcules in the Semen, are 

 really fuch as they have been fup- 

 pofed to be, and not minute Ma- 

 chines refembling thofe of the Ca- 

 lamary, muft among many other 

 Difficulties, which have been flatted 



