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projetée en dehors par la courte ouverture 
du manteau ou sac de l’animal. Cette vessie , 
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miîky juice. Tliis was an oval bag , in winch the milt 
vessels formed them selves gradually , the bag im- 
fôlding as tiiese frarrïed an disposed thern selves in 
bïindles. Bèforc lhat time he had observed two eolla- 
ieràl tubes , which are alike in both sexes ; bnt a 
l’égular progress in the expansion of the milt-bag and 
formation of the milt-yessels had not présent ed it self 
before. Tîiose tubes til then appeared opeu at 011e 
extremîty , museh, ressembüng the female parts of 
génération in a suait f but did not terminale in along 
oval bag exlending in a parraltel with the stomach 
more than hatf the lenglh of the fish , as lie found 
them afterwards when the milt vessels lhat fîiled the 
whoie cavity were ripe for éjection. The saine ducts 
witîiout the bag are found in the feinale also, perliaps 
for the déposition of the spawn». ( Vid. Needham’s 
microscopical ; Discoveries , cap. 5 . ) 
)> It appears from this accouut that the male caîa- 
mary (at a certain time of the year only ) has a bag 
•wherein the milt vessels are coutaiued , and tbat the 
female has no such bag. Since therefore the ba^ of onr 
polypus is found in the same situation as lhat of the 
calamary ( which is also a kind of polypus ) , we may 
suppose it to be the milt bag, and that our polypus is 
a male , taken at a time when the milt was ready for 
Éjection. In the dried specimen at the british muséum , 
and also in the other spécimens , there is thesame 
opening, with the pipe lhat rises above it towards thç 
arms,but not the leastappearence of the bag in ques~ 
