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the 3d of October it began to eat, and in a (hort 
time became a compleat animal. On September 
the 2 2d, the upper part appeared to me to be wi- 
thering away. But we ITiall foon fee how much 
I have reafon to think I was mistaken. 
I cut another Anemone, of the fame fpecies, 
acrofs the middle of the body, in fuch a manner 
as that the two parts were only left hanging to- 
gether by one fourth part of the diameter. My 
defign was, to try whether nature would produce 
limbs on the edge of the lower half-part, in the 
fame manner as when the body is cut quite afun- 
der ; or, whether the wound, though very deep, 
would heal up again. Nature was not wanting 
to itfelf j for, notwithftanding the largenefs of 
the incifion, the two fevered parts were joined 
up together, and in a few days the wound was 
healed 
Oftobre l’anemone mangea et devi-nt en peu de temps un 
animal complef. Le partie fuperieure me parut perir le vingt, 
deux Septembre ; mais on verra comblen j’ai lieu de croire 
que je me fuis trompe. 
J’ai encore coupe par la moitie du corps une anemone de 
cette efpece, de manierb que les deux parties ne tenoient plus, 
1’une a l’autre que par un quart du diametre du corps de l’ani- 
mal. J’avois envie de voir fi la Nature ne feroit pas naitre 
des membres au cote coupe de la partie inferieure, comm© 
torfque la fuperieure en eft totalement feparee, ou ft la playe 
quoique fort grande fe confolideroit. La Nature ne s’eft 
point trompee ; malgre la grandeur de l’incifion les deux 
parties fe font rapprochees, et au bout de qudques jours 1& 
