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this fpecies of ‘Polypi. I rcfolved however to con- 
tinue my obfervations upon this minute body * which 
was oblong, and had a pedicle three or four times 
longer than ix felf. 
It was on the fecond of June at 5 in the evening 
that 1 put it apart in a glafs, and at half an hour 
after 8 the fame evening, I perceived that it began 
to fplit from the top towards the bottom. When 
the reparation was accomplifhed, each of the two 
bodies, formed by this divifion, was nearly of the 
fame fhape as the firft [Fig. 6.). I then thought, 
judging (till by analogy, that it would be fome time 
before either of thefe bodies would again be ready 
to divide* but a very little after, I faw that they 
both became round, and that they difpofed them- 
felves precifely as if they were again going to Se- 
parate. This novelty drew all my attention, and it 
again came into my mind, that this body which I 
had but juft concluded not to contain the principle, 
from whence I was to expeft the produTion of 
one of the clufters 1 was looking after, might poffi- 
bly ftill be the very thing I was Seeking for. 
I now imagined that perhaps thefe bodys would 
again divide and Subdivide themfelves, till they 
fhould come both to the fhape and to the fize of the 
Polypi , which I had feen upon the clufters : I how- 
ever looked upon this Idea but as a mere conjefture. 
The two little bodies did in effed divide prefentiy 
after* but the 4 which jefulted from this divifion 
[Fig. 7.) had neither yet the form nor the minute- 
nefs of the Polypi in queftion. I now wanted to 
know whether thefe 4 bodies would again proceed 
to divide without interruption 5 and 1 faw them a 
Pppp little 
