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motions, but which were by no means fo 
drong as in the poderior extremities. By 
my experiments, I like wife found that 
filver was the bed conductor. 
Experiment II. 
The movements produced in the legs of 
lizards, prepared in the above-mentioned 
manner, were feeble and trandtory; it 
mud be obferved, however, that I am 
now fpeaking of fmall ones, for larger 
ones were violently agitated, and preferved 
their vitality much longer; when the 
medulla fpinalis of the tail was coated, 
the movements were dronger, and of longer 
duration. 
Experiment III. 
An eel was cut acrofs into two equal 
portions, and the medulla fpinalis of 
the divided ends prepared in the ufual 
manner. On exciting the tail-piece, it 
moved as if it had been in its own ele¬ 
ment. 
