on Sea-onemonies. 
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which will in fome meafure fupply the want of an elfay, 
the publication of which is retarded by the abovemen- 
tioned accident. 
A FURTHER OBSERVATION- ON THE FIRST SPECIES. 
TOWARDS the end of the year 1 774, 1 cut in two, 
in a perpendicular direction, an anemony of the firft 
fpecies, which had been formed from a moiety of one I 
had cut before, fo that each half was then only a quarter 
of the primitive anemony- Thefe two halves had the 
fame fate as the firft fecfions ; and one of them, after 
having been thus reftored, and having been always kept 
by itfelf, produced, on the 1 ft of J une 1 7 7 5 , a young ane- 
mony as perfedt as thofe that are produced at fea, and of 
the fame colour as the mother. It mull be remembered 
that 
d’inferer ici une notice fur la premiere efpece qui fuppleera en partie au memoirs 
clout les accidents que je viens de rappoter retarderont la publication. 
NOTICE SUR LA PREMIERE ESPECE. 
A LA fin de 1774* je coupai par la moitie, dans une direction perpendicu- 
laire a fa bafe, une anemone de la premiere efpece, qui apres l’avoir ete, s’etoit 
reformee : chaque moiti-e n’etoit done alors que le quart de l’anemone primitive. 
Ces deux parties ont fait comme la premiere fois; et une d’elles, apres s’etre ainfi 
reformee, et avoir toujours vecu en particular, me donna, le premier Juin 1775, 
une petite anemone, auffi parfaite que celles qui naifient a la mer, et de la meme 
couleur que la mere. Qir’on j’uge de ma furprife quoique je m’attende a tout j et 
