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have in view; but I fhall be obliged to take up the fub- 
je6t far backwards. An accident has juft now deprived 
me of my twelve little ane monies : the fea-water was, in 
in the firft days of March, fo much troubled by the fall- 
ing in of part of the cliff, Sec. that my great anemonies 
of the firft and third fpecies have confiderably fuffered, 
and all the fmall ones of the fourth fpecies died in one 
day. Another accident had juft preceded this, and had 
occafionedthelofsof a whole year’s labour: on the 28th of 
January, Reaumur’s thermometer fell to 15 0 below the 
freezing point ; I had then forty vafes containing anemo- 
nies on which I was making experiments, and was at the 
fame time attending to other avocations : notwithftand- 
ing all the meafures I had taken to prevent it, the water 
froze in feveral of them : my anemonies however would 
not have died, lince one of the firft fpecies, which I had 
on 
Je compte beaucoup far les experiences que je medite, tnais je ferai oblige de 
reprendre les cliofes de loin.Un accident vient de me priyer de mes douzepetites 
anemones : l’eau de la mer, dans les premiers jours de Mars, a ete tellement trou- 
ble par I’eboulement des falaifes, &e. que mes grandes anemones de la premiere 
et de la troilieme efpece orrt confxderablement fouffert, et les petites de la 
quatrieme font toutes mortes en un meme jour. Un autre accident avoit precede, 
et m’avoit fait perdre un an de travail: le 28 Janvier, le thermometre de 
REAUMUR defeendit a 15 0 de condenfation ; j’avois alors quarante vafes d’ane- 
mones de mer en experience, et mes foins etoient partages par d’autres objets : 
quelque precaution que j’aye pris, i’eau de plulieurs gela ; mes anemones n’en 
feroient 
