2 3 2 Funnel-Animals, 
indefatigable Induftry we are fo greatly 
obliged for many curious Difcoveries of fe¬ 
deral Kinds of what he calls Polypi , has, by 
the Help of an ingenious * Contrivance to 
fix the Magnifiers of his Microfcope clofe 
to the Glafs Vefiels where he keeps thefe 
Creatures, found Means to obferve the very 
extraordinary Manner of their Increafe; 
which I fhall take the Liberty to prefent the 
Reader, from the Account given by himfelf 
to the Royal Society , and printed in the PhF 
lofophical FranfzBions , N° 474. 
“ Thefe Funnel-like Polypi do alfo mul- 
“ tiply by dividing themfelves into two, but 
“ they divide themfelves otherwife than the 
" Clufiering Polypi: they neither divide Ion- 
** gitlidinally, nor tfanfverfejy, but doping 
“ and diagonal-wife. Of two Funnel-like 
“ Polypi , juft produced by the Divifion of 
one ? the firft has the old Head, and a new 
pofierior End ^ and the other the old po- 
f e ' fierior End, wdth a new Head. 
“ I fhall call that which has the old Head, 
<£ Superior Polypus \ and that which has 
the new Head, the Inferior qne ? 
cc The firft Particulars obfervable in a 
. * s Funnel-like Polypus that fs gqing to divide, 
* c are the Lips of the Inferior Polypus, I mean 
thofe tranfparent Edges that are fo con- 
* A EJefcription of- the Apparatus here referred to, is given 
f>y Mr. Trembley, N° 484. of the Phil. Iranf .; and a Figure 
explanatory of the fame may be feen Tab, ifg- 4. belong¬ 
ing to that Trpnfaaion. 
4 4 fpicuous 
