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tie Comes. Mr. ^De Reaumur judges them all to be- 
long to the general Clafs of the Polypi \ and he has 
already diftinguifhed and diftributed the feveral Spe- 
cies of them, to which he has given the refpedive 
Names that I have made ufe of in the incloled Abf- 
tradt of my Obfervations. 
I am very fenfible, that fome' PafTages of this 
Account will hardly appear fufficicntly intelligible, 
to fuch as have not yet taken Notice of the little 
Creatures I am fpeaking about : But this Inconve- 
nience I could not entirely have avoided, without 
entering into too particular a Detail of Fads, which 
I have not yet profecuted fo far as I intend, and which 
1 could not befides have throughly explained, without 
the Affiftance of a great Number of Figures. 
I hope, notwithftanding, that what I have faid 
will abundantly fhew how Angular the Animalcula in 
Qucftion are, and how well they defer ve Notice and 
Confideration. I fhall neglcd no Opportunities of 
purfuingtheirHiftory ; thereby to enable myfelf here- 
after to give a more perfed Account of what I fhall 
have further learned in my Enquiries. But this can- 
not be done immediately, as a conftderable Time is 
required, for the making of accurate, repeated, varied, 
and well-conneded Experiments. 
In the mean time, as I have always made it my 
Pleafure, I fhall even look upon it as a Duty, to 
be at all Times ready to fatisfy the Curiofity of 
fuch as are Lovers of Natural Hiftory, with regard 
to the feveral Particulars that may prefent them- 
felves, and that I may think worthy of their Atten- 
tion. 
I fhall 
