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the animal became enfeebled and nearly dead, with this 
instrument extended. I therefore put a piece of paper 
gently under it, and took it from the water, and dried it 
with this organ in good preservation. The other parts were 
also in great perfection; and as I did not know such another 
opportunity would offer, the sketch was finished at the 
time. The feelers put us in mind of the nectariferous rays 
in a Passiflora, 
