272.
[113] Huxley's "Evolution in Biology" (_Darwiniana_, p.

192), where be quotes from Bonnet's statements, which "bear no small resemblance to what is understood by evolution at the present day." [114] Buffon did not accept Bonnet's theory of preexistent germs, but he assumed the existence of "_germes accumules_" which reproduced parts or organs, and for the production of organisms he imagined "_molecules organiques_." Reaumur had previously (1712) conjectured that there were "_germes caches et accumules_" to account for the regeneration of the limbs of the crayfish.

The ideas of Bonnet on germs are stated in his _Memoires sur les Salamandres_ (1777-78-80) and in his _Considerations sur les corps organises_ (1762.) [115] _Memoires de Physique_, etc., pp.

318, 319, 324-359.

Yet the idea of a sort of continuity between the inorganic and the organic world is expressed by Verworn.
[116] _General Physiology_ (English trans., 1899, p.