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little after again prepare for another divifion this 
divifion was completed at 20 minutes after 
eleven, and at midnight the 8 bodies which were 
formed by this third divifion were again almoft 
compleatly divided. The clutter was then com- 
pofed of 16 Polypi 5 and I from that moment no 
longer doubted, but thefe were cluttering Polypi of 
the fpecies I have been laft defcribing. Among 
thefe 1 6 Polypi , there were fome which had already 
the perfeft form of thofe I had obferved upon the 
more advanced clutters: and thefe were fuch as 
were neareft to the origin of the branches. 
Few of thefe 16 Polypi were of an equal fize, 
thofe which were the moft diftant from the origin 
of the branches, were the largeft, and their form 
alfo was the lead like to that of a bell. I found 
at three in the morning on the third of June , that 
the number of the Polypi in the clutter was confi- 
derably encreafed 5 they were 16 at midnight, and 
I could now tell 26 , tho I could only fee part of 
the clutter, the reft of it being beyond the focus of 
the microfcope : and at half an hour after 7 in the 
morning, I counted at leaft 40 Polypi , in that fame 
part which I could fee of the clutter. 
In order to judge with more certainty of the pro- 
grefs of the multiplication of thefe Polypi > I counted 
alfo thofe of another clutter, which was fo fituated 
as to be entirely within the reach of one of my 
magnifyers. This clutter began to be formed about 
8 in the evening of the 2d of June > I mean that 
it was then, that the round body flrft began to fplic 
it felf into two. At 1 1 the fame night, that clutter 
confided of 8 Polypi , at half an hour after 7 the 
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