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he could not (lay long enough in the Country to fee 
the new Parts break out, in the room of thofe he had 
cut away j which has been however, fupplied by 
Monfieur Girard de Villars , who, on the Coafts 
near Rochelle , has feen the Urtica reproduce all that 
had been cut off, and the Parts of the Stars alfo put- 
ting out each new Radii in the room of thofe he 
had deprived them of. Monfieur JuJJieu alfo report- 
ed, that this Fad in the Star-filh, fo new to him, 
was not fo to the common Fifhcrmcn of the Coun- 
try, who feeing him tearing and cutting to Pieces one 
of thofe Animals, told him, Quil auroit beau faire , 
cjiiil ne parviendroit pas a leur oter la •vie : Thofe 
poor People having been accuftomed to fee daily a 
Fad, the more philofophical Part of Men had never fo 
much as heard of. 
Monfieur Reaumur , though very fenfible that Wa- 
ter Infeds had a confiderable Ad\antage over others 
for the Recovery of their Wounds, was yet willing 
to try if fome Land Infeds might not poflibly afford 
alfo fome like Obfervations ; and after feveral Trials, 
both he and Monfieur Bonnet, have met with fome 
Sorts of EarthWorms capable of bearing the Ope- 
ration. Monfieur Reaumur has cut in two fome of 
thefe Worms ; the anterior Part, that to which the 
Head belong'd, feem’d to have little fuffer'd : In lefs 
than two Days, the Anus was form'd again, as it had 
been before, and the Worms were complete to all 
Purpofes, but that they were fh after, and wanted of 
their Length : They lengthened, however, by degrees, 
the Number of the Rings of which they are compofed 
increafed, and they came again to their firft Length 
at the End of fome Months. But the pofkrior Part of 
