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they are quite small, like those on the necks of c and j, whereas 

 at times they may be completely hidden, as in the neck of a" t 

 where another follicle was discovered only after the dissection 

 shown in Fig. 2 had been made. 



Given weakness on the part of the tunica albuginea, three 

 minor variations of one and the same process are capable of 

 accounting for these different types of follicles. I have tried to 

 represent this in a series of diagrams (Fig. 3). 



CASE I 



1 2 3 



CASE II 



1 2 



CASE III 



U^V 



2 5 



S 



FIG. 3. Diagrams to illustrate the origin of compound follicles. Description ia 



text, p. 182-183. 



If we imagine that the ovarian surface evaginates rather 

 broadly beneath egg 2, Case I., diagram a, then eggs I and 3, 







which are supposed to lie very close to 2, will be carried away from 

 the ovary, as in b and c. This would lead to the formation of a 

 follicle of the type i and j, Fig. I. 



If on the other hand only a very small evagination should take 

 place under egg 2, Case II., its neighbors, I and 3, if carried 

 away from the ovary, would not come to lie in such close prox- 

 imity to i in the evagination. In fact they would lie higher up 

 in the suspensorium, d, e, Fig. 3, and in this manner sufficiently 

 great differences in early distribution would account for the later 



