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more perfedl knowledge of thofe fingular enemies to 
man, the tape, the hairworm, and the fea dragon? Ifhall, 
however, leave thefe refearehes, to which nature feems. 
to invite us, and from v/hich ufeful difcoveries may pro- 
bably be derived, to-thofe who apply folely to phyliology 
and fliall here content myfelf with laying before the 
public, the obfervations and experiments to which I have 
confined my refearches.. 
I continued to obferve the inferior half of a purple 
anemony of the.firft fpecies, which I had cut in two on 
the 1 2 th of July 1772, and which was alive on the Stir 
of April 1773, the day on which I concluded my former 
elTay : it appeared to me to be daily recovering ftrength. 
On the 2 6th I found it at the bottom of the velTel. On the 
I ft of July it climbed up the fides almoft to the furface 
of the water; and this it repeated on the 1 5th and 2 2d^ 
above a twelvemonth after the time it had been cut. On 
the 25th a crab (cancer lanoftis^ cancer vmenatus) half 
dried, 
mieux connoitre ces finguliers ennemisdc les crinonSjl’homme les draconcules, le 
tenia et autres? c’efi; a ceux qui s’occupent uniqueraent de la phyfiologie a fulvrc 
ce rentier, que la Jiature nous prefente, et qui pourroit conduire a un champ fertile. 
Reftrcint a mes petites obfervations, et a. mes experiences, je me contenterai dc 
les faire paffer fous les yeux du public. 
La moitie inferieure du corps d’une anemone pourpre.de la premiere efpecej 
que j’avois coup.ee le 12 Juillet 1772, et qui avoit vecu jufqu’au 8 Avril 1773, . 
jour ouje terminois mon premier memoire, continua d’etre obfervee; elle fe for-^ 
tifioit de jour en jour. Le 26 je la trouvai au fond du vafe, le premier Juillet 
elle montale longdes parois prefque a fleur d’eau, le 15 et le 22, c’eft-a-dire plus 
d’un an apres qu’elle eut ete coupee, elle y monta encore. Le 25, un cancre 
(cancer lanofus^ cancer venenatus) a demi dcffechc tomba dans le vafe, y fejcurna 
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