C-e.ature caird ''li.e b-.^,-! hceen in the Paper, rrnd^ 
p e V i upon ^he ■ i. i triaid Animalcula. 
Tne next day I favv three particular Animalcula fvvipj- 
niingthrough the Water^ the frriallcft of v/hich v/as loo > 
times fmaller than ihe aboveDid Ariimalcula. 
Now ought we 1101 to be aftonsfh'd to find that thefe 
fmall Infects ca^ lye 21 Months dry, and yet live, and as 
foon as ever they are put into Water fall a fwimming^ , 
or faftning the hinder parts of their Bodies to the Glafi, , 
and then produce their Wheels, as in Fig. 5. W juft 
as if they had never wanted Water. 
In the month of Septemh. I put a great many of the 
l ift mention'd AnimalciJila into a wide Glafs Tube, which 
placed themfelves on the fides of the Glafs prefently, 
whereupon I pour'd the Water out, and then obferv'd 
that fevcral Animalcula, to the number of 18 or 19, lay 
by one another in the fpace of a CoUrfe Sand ^ all which, 
when there remained no more Waterj clos'd up themfelves 
in a globular figu rev y 
Some of the Bodies of thefe Animalcule w^ere fo ftrong- 
ly dry'd up, that one could fee the wrinkles in them, 
and they were of a Reddifh Coiour 3 a few others were 
fo Tranfparent, that if you held them up between your 
Eye and the Light, you might move your Fingers behind 
em, and fee the Motion thra their Bodies. 
After that thefe Anirnalcula had lain thus dry'd up a . 
day or two, I invited foine Gentlemen to come and par- 
take of the .agreeable Speftacie with me 5 that is, to fee 
how the faid Animalcula Vv'ould diveft themfelves of 
their Globular figure, and fwim about in the Water; , 
According to which, after my Friends had fatisfy*d 
their Guriofity, in viewing the Animalcula in their oval 
or globular form, fome of which were fo Pellucid as if 
they had been little Glafs Balls, I pour'd fome Watec in- 
to the Glafs Tube, whereupon they prefently funk to 
the bottom 5 and then the Gentlemen took the faid Tube 
into ^ 
