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There have been feveral of thefe wonderful Crea- 
tures fent to Paris , to Mr. Reaumur , from whom 
We hope for a particular Difertation. 
But after all, I do not think it a perfed Animal, 
but a kind of the Uva marina, Holothuria or Zoo - 
j tihyta, which really are living when they are firft 
catched 5 of this Kind are the c Penna marina , figured 
by Barrelierus in Table 1273 and 1774. and alfo 
the Fungi Marini, Tab. 1293, 1294. Thefe laft 1 
remember l have found feveral times on our Sea- 
Coafts, and obferved that there was a living Nature 
in them. 
he faid, by one End to fome Plant, or the Side of the Veflel in which 
they were contained, and at the other End had Six or Eight Arms, with 
which they feized their Prey. He alfo found, that one of them being 
cut afunder, a few Days after, new Arms were grown out of that Part 
that had none before j fince which he had cut them every Way poftible, 
in Length, Breadth, and obliquely, and always with the fame Succefs j 
after which he has gone on ftill further, fubdividing them, but never 
found them to propagate any other ways than by Shoots, feveral at a 
time, and without any Copulation. Mr .Bentinck added, That this 
Gentleman would foon print an Account of the Obfervations he had 
'made , and that the Irifeds he had himfelf feen of this Sort, were from 
about a Line to half an Inch in Length. 
The late Mr. Lewenhoeck feems to have met with this fame Sort of 
uSnimalcula in the Year 1703, and has deferibed and given a Draught 
of them in a Letter published in N° 383. of thefe Tranfaffions. Soon 
after which a more perfect Draught and Defcription of the fame Infeds 
were inferted from an anonymous Hand in N°a88. of the fame Tranf- 
attions ; all which Figures anfwer very well to the Defcription and a 
rough Sketch in Mr. Bentinck’ s Letter. In Fig. III. and IV. of this laft 
cited Tranfatfion , one of the Infeds is reprefented as quite purfed up 
or contraded j but neither Mr. Lewenhoeck , nor the laft-mentioned 
anonymous Author, ever thought of dividing the In fed, though the 
latter had obferved the young Shoot dropping off from the Parent. 
III. Some 
