[35] Examples of this are found in Lilium candidum, Lachenalia luteola.
[36] Delage and Giard give Lessona (’69) the credit for first stating that the phenomenon of regeneration is an adaptation to liability to injury; but Réaumur first suggested this idea in 1742, and Bonnet in 1745. Delage’s interpretation, viz. that Lessona ascribed this to a prévoyance de la nature, has been denied by Lessona’s biographer, Camerano (La Vita di M. Lessona, Acad. R. d. Torino, 2, XLV, 1896), and by Giard (Sur L’autotomie Parasitaire, etc., Compt. Rendus de Séances de la Société de Biologie, May, 1897).
[37] Whether, having once failed in this way to obtain the snail, the bird or lizard would not learn to make a frontal attack is not stated. Or shall we assume that the tail is all that is wanted?
[38] The Germ Plasm. Translation by W. Newton-Parker, 1893, page 116.
[39] There are no facts that show that this statement is not entirely imaginary. T. H. M.
[40] The italics are, of course, my own. T. H. M.
[41] Fundulus heteroclitus, Stenopus chrysops, Decapterus macrella, Menticirrhus macrella, Carassius auratus, Phoxinus funduloides, Noturus sp., and a few others.
[42] See Newport and Scudder.
[43] Brindley, ’97.
[44] Lepelletur, Nouveau Bulletin de la Société philomatique, 1813, Tome III, page 254; Heineken, Zool. Journal, 1828, Vol. IV, page 284 (also for insects, ibid., page 294); Müller, Manual de Physiol., Tome I, page 30; Wagner, W., Bull. Soc. Imp. Natural., Moscow, ’87.