Regeneration . he animal brings the wounded leg to its jaws, and bites itoff down to the coxa. In the Epcitid(E, that Schultz chiefly made useof, this never happened. He observed, however, even in these forms,that when the leg is cut off at the coxa it regenerates better than ^ See Newport and Scudder. 2 Brindley, 97. 8 Lepelletur, Nouveaii Bulletin de la Socicte philoinatique, 1813, Tome III, page 254 ;Heineken, Zool. Journal, 1828, Vol. IV, page 284 (also for insects, ibid., page 294) ;Miiller, Manual de Physiol., Tome I, page 30 ; Wagner, W., Btdl. Soc. Imp. Natural.^Moscow, 87. REGENERATIO
Regeneration . he animal brings the wounded leg to its jaws, and bites itoff down to the coxa. In the Epcitid(E, that Schultz chiefly made useof, this never happened. He observed, however, even in these forms,that when the leg is cut off at the coxa it regenerates better than ^ See Newport and Scudder. 2 Brindley, 97. 8 Lepelletur, Nouveaii Bulletin de la Socicte philoinatique, 1813, Tome III, page 254 ;Heineken, Zool. Journal, 1828, Vol. IV, page 284 (also for insects, ibid., page 294) ;Miiller, Manual de Physiol., Tome I, page 30 ; Wagner, W., Btdl. Soc. Imp. Natural.^Moscow, 87. REGENERATION AND LIABILITY TO INJURY lOI when cut off at any other level. Schultz states that we see here anexcellent example of how regeneration is influenced by natural selec-tion, since regeneration takes place best where the leg is most oftenbroken off. On the other hand, the author hastens to add that sinceregeneration also takes place when the leg is cut off at any other -laii w 5 -A. .., -r- r-. ® -^ : i A *>./. x- T^ V F
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