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VI* Some Account of the In fed called the Frefli- 
water Polypus, before -mentioned in thefe 
Tranfadtions *, as the fame was delivered 
at a Meeting of the Royal Society, 
by the Prefi'denc, on Thurfday, March 24. 
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Gentlemen, 
r ~~| ^Hough I can no- ways expe<St to add any thing 
of Confequencc, to the very curious Account 
already 4 given you by Monfieur Trembley> of his Ob- 
fervations on the little Infers, I had the Pleafure of 
producing before you at your laft Meeting,- and 
though I am very fenfible the Truth and Exadnefs of 
thole Obfervations no ways want the Addition of 
any new Alteration, after tkofe very full ones al- 
ready given, by thofe worthy Members of this So- 
ciety, both at the Hague and at ‘Paris 5 the Ho- 
nourable Mr. Bentinck , in his Letter to me, which I 
communicated to you, and Monfieur Reaumur , in the 
Preface to the Sixth Volume of his admirable Hillory 
of In feds; and though both thofe Gentlemen have 
had the Advantage of feeing and making many more 
Experiments, than I can poffibly have done in fo 
fhort a time : yet, as I apprehend it is expeded from 
me, that I fhould give fome Account, how impeded 
foever, of what I have already feen and taken notice 
of ; and as I in fome fort alfo owe my own Tcfti- 
* N 9 466. p. 218. 
f Philofophical Travf actions , N° 467. 
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