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of the fame form with thofe it begins with ; fo that 
thefe animals can, and do, change their fhapes, for the 
feveral ends and purpofes of their being; and this in 
a moft furprifi ng manner. 
I had farther an opportunity of examining fome of 
thofe kind of corallines, which I call celleferous, from 
their having rows of cells difpos’d in plant-like rami- 
fications. The fmall black fpots in each cell , which I 
had conjedtur’d before to be the embrio of a future 
teftaceous animal. Vid. Phil. Pranf. Vol. 4,8. Tab. 
VI. p. 1 1 f . I found now to be the contracted bodies 
of dead polypes ; for we here faw fome of thefe po- 
lypes ' alive, and extending themfelves out of their 
cells, as at K y Jig. 7. and upon reviewing them, when 
they were dead, found they made the appearance of 
blackifh fpots in each cell, as at L y Jig. 7. So that 
we have reafon to fuppofe, that this fpecies of polypes, 
that form thefe corallines, do change into teftaceous 
bodies. But of this I do not doubt, that time, [and 
more obfervations, will fully convince the curious. 
I am. 
SIR, 
Your moft afFedtionate friend, and fervant. 
Lawrence -Lane, 
June I3,I7S4- 
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