1) The forelimb rudiment of the stage 30 embryo of
Triturus pyrrhogaster was extirpated, and the nasal placode taken from another embryo in the same stage was grafted in the flank ventral to the eighth or the ninth somite.
2) A Supernumerary limb was thus induced in 17 out of 39 specimens in which no regeneration appeared in the normal site.
3) Of these 17 cases, f developed 4-digited perfect limbs, which were disharmonic to the body side.
4) The fact that in this experiment the new limb was formed of the cells in situ and not of the cells shifted from the normal rudiments, is substantiated by the results of two series of control experiments, one of simple regeneration and the other of simple induction experiment.
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