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What I have related is a faithful Account of ail 
the Experiments I have yet had Time to make on 
the ‘Polypus, Thofe above-mentioned are all that I 
have cut j by which it appears, that I have yet had no 
unfuccclslul Operation 5 and lam not confcious, that 
I have yet loft one Polypus by any Accident, though 
the Weather has been very fevere, excepting one 
Day, ever fince they came over ; and this has pro- 
bably made things go on flower, and the Repro- 
ductions require longer Time than it is reafonable to 
think they would have done, in a more favourable and 
milder Seafon. 
All I can fay for my Experiments, is, that I have 
made them with as much Care and Circumvention 
as I was Mafter of; and that, in this Relation of 
them, I have in the ftri&eft manner adhered to the 
exad Truth, in the moil minute Particulars : I mud 
alfo add, that the Infedts which have been cut, or upon 
which I have made any fort of Experiment, have 
never been out of my own private keeping, and have 
never been fo much as feen by any Perfon whatfo- 
ever but in my own Prefence. 
I fhould now, Gentlemen, make an End, and 
ask your Excufes for troubling you with fo long an 
Account, were I not in fome fort obliged, before I 
conclude, to return my Thanks to a very worthy 
Member of our Society, Dr. Parfons , whofe 
extreme Curiofity, and earneft Defire to promote the 
Knowledge of Nature, has prompted him to favour 
me with his Company and Afliftance in feveral of 
my Experiments ; befides which he has alfo furnifhed 
me with fome very exad and curious Drawings of 
thefe minute Bodies, as they have appeared to the 
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