on Sea-anemonies. 6 5 
currence of two fexes may or may not be difpenfed with, 
is a fact I expedt to learn from future experiments. I 
can at prefent only fufpedt its being unneceffary, fincefhe 
anemonies I had hitherto operated upon were all pro- 
duced at fea. The manner in w'hich they multiply feems 
ftrongly to favour that fuppolition : fuch ideas begin al- 
ready to become familiar to us, they appear lefs lingu- 
lar; and yet how different are they from thofe we ufed 
to entertain of the animal creation ! 
Let us now proceed from the operations of mere na- 
ture, to fuch as are in fome meafure the effect of art. On 
the 1 ath of December 1775, I fevered with the point 
of a knife ten fmall pieces from the bafes of feveral ane- 
monies, at the places where they feemed the moft dif- 
tended, and moft adherent to large oyfter-fhells, from 
which they dropped after the operation. I put thefe 
pieces 
nouvelles experiences, fur l’inutilite du concours des deux fexes : je ne puis que la 
foupqonner, parceque les anemones que j’ai op ere jufqu’ici etoient nees en mer. 
La maniere dontces animaux fe multiplient fetnble etayer fortement ce foup^on. 
Deja nous nous accoutumous a toutes ces idees nouvelles; elles nous frapent mains: 
cependant combien font elles eioignees de cel les que nous avions de Panimal ! 
Fallons maintenant dts operations propres de la nature, a celles ou Part entre 
pour que [que chofe. Le 12 Decern bre 1775, je coupai, avec le bout d’un 
biilouri, dix petites portions des bords de la bafe de plulieurs anemones,, aux 
endroils ou ces bafes etoient plus etendiies, et plus adhf rentes a des ecailies de 
groffes huitres, dont elles fe detachoient en les coup ant. Je mis ces particules 
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