CONTENTS. 



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Materials and methods 93 



Breeding 93 



Period and severity of starvation 94 



Preventing the mothers from eating their young 94 



Autopsies 95 



( Seneral effects of underfeeding 97 



Blighting of ovum 97 



Length of gestation 98 



AIk irt ion and premature delivery 98 



Sterility 99 



Stillbirths and viability of the n :wborn 99 



Size of litters 100 



Weight of fetus 100 



Relative weights and lengths of body parts 101 



Discussion '-•• 



Summary 127 



Bibliography 135 



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