98 Animalcules in Waters. 
to eat Infedls, and even raw Meat. They 
fatten themfelves by one Extremity to fome 
Plant, or the Side of a Glafs, and have at 
the other End fix or eight Horns, where¬ 
with they hold their Prey. 
Fig. VIII. is taken from a Drawing fent 
with this Account. 
He cut one of thefe Creatures to fee what 
would become of it, and fome Days after 
found new Arms growing out where others 
had been cut away. Since that, he has di¬ 
vided them the long Way, the broad Way, 
oblique, and every Way pottible, all with 
the fame Succefs. He has alfo gone on fub- 
dividing them, and has not found them pro¬ 
pagate any other Way than by Shoots, and 
without Copulation. 
Both thefe Letters feem to mean the fame 
Animalcule Mr. Leeuwenhoek defcribes : 
though with farther extraordinary Particu¬ 
lars, which I believe the Curious will judge it 
worth their while carefully to examine into*. 
Upon 
t 
* Since the Publication of the above Accounts, fuch farther 
Particulars concerning this Animalcule have been received both 
from Holland and France , in Anfwer to the ingenious Enqui¬ 
ries of Martin Folk.es, Efq. Prefident of the Royal So¬ 
ciety, and by him communicated to the faid Society, that 
at would appear an unpardonable Neglect Ihould I take no 
Notice of them. 
' The Honourable William Bentinck, Efq. F. R. S. 
in a Letter from the Hague , dated 15th January , N. S. * 7- 4 - 3 » 
inclofes fome Obfervations and Experiments drawn up by 
Mr. Trembley (the young Gentleman mentioned p. 97. 
as the firft Difcoverer of the Singularity of this Infeft, who 
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