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A detail of my former obfervations and experi- 
ments would be here an ufelefs repetition: I fhall 
therefore only obferve, that the femi-anemonies of the 
third fpecies have fo entirely recovered the i:>arts they 
had been deprived of, whether the fuperior or the balls, 
that no manner of difference could be perceived. 
Some of the men of learning, whom my firll difco- 
veries brought to my ftudy, imagined that the balls 
v^s the molt effential part of the animal, and that the 
mouth and limbs were to be conlldered only as extre- 
mities. I was myfelf inclined to adopt that notion, feeing 
that in all the fpecies abovementioned, the balls ever 
gave the greatell marks of fenllbility, that the inteltines 
are htuated in that region, 8cc. but who, on feeing 
the upper part of an anemony producing a new balls 
perfedlly hmilar to that which had been fevered from it, 
will any longer maintain fuch an opinion? During 
the great equinoxial tides, in places from whence the fea 
feldom 
Le detail de mes obfervations et de mes premieres experiences feroit ici une 
repetition inutile : il fuffira de dire, que les moities d’anemones de la 3®“' efpece 
ont repouffe fi parfaitement ou la bafe ou la partie fuperieure qui leur manquoit, 
qu’il n’eft pas poffible de s’en appercevoir. Parmi les favans que mes premieres de- 
couvertes attiroient a mon cabinet, il s’en trouva qui crurent que ce qui conftitue 
effentiellement I’animal etoit dans la bafe, et que les membres et la bouche devoient 
cn ctre regardes comme les extremites. J’etois mol meme tentede le croire, d’autant 
que la bafe m’a toujours paru plus fenfible dans toutes les efpeces, et que c’eft dans 
cette region que font contenus les inteftlns. See. mais quelle apparence de refter 
dans cette perfualion, lorfqu’on voit la partie fuperieure reformer une bafe tout a 
fait femblable a celle qui a ete retranchee ? Pendant les grandes mers d’equinoxe, 
aux 
