192 A VIVIPAROUS AUSTRALIAN PERIPATUS, 



that he had saved one of the embryos for me and would let me 

 have it at the first chance. For some time no opportunity offered, 

 and as it was not a matter of vital importance I did not worry 

 him about it ; but, as Dr. Haswell is known to be both a skilful 

 and a veracious biologist, on the strength of his statement to me 

 I was quite justified, even in the absence of an affidavit, in 

 appending a footnote to the notice of my exhibit, as the proof 

 finally left my hand, as follows : " One of these [three specimens 

 exhibited] was subsequently dissected, and proved to be pregnant" 

 (I.e. p. 892). This statement is brief, I admit, under the circum- 

 stances necessarily so ; but no reasonable objection can be taken 

 to it on other grounds. I have shown that the specimen was one 

 that Moseley would without hesitation have called pregnant ; and 

 the inferences that he would have drawn under the circumstances 

 are evident from the quotations already given from his paper. 

 Also, as I have already remarked, Professor Haswell is still in 

 Sydney. 



The second specimen I kept, partly in the hope that she might 

 live to produce young, and partly because I was much interested 

 in her : as far as possible she was inspected daily, and from time 

 to time the contents of the tin in which she was kept were care- 

 fully lifted out for an airing, and as carefully replaced. On 

 October 24th I found her dead, and with her corpse four living 

 newly born young ones ; these I exhibited at a Meeting on the 

 31st, and I said of them that they were the progeny of one of the 

 females exhibited in June preceding and that the mother had died 

 a few days ago after giving birth to them [Proceedings I.e. p. 

 1508] ; and in so saying not only did I know that another female 

 got on the same day, at the same place, probably under the same 

 stone, had been found by Dr. Haswell to be pregnant three months 

 before, but when I made that statement I believe myself to be 

 perfectly correct in saying that I actually had in my possession 

 the embryo promised me by Dr. Haswell ; that in fact he brought 

 it to the Meeting, and handed it over to me there and then ; it is 

 mounted in balsam, and labelled in his own handwriting ; and I 

 have had it in my possession ever since. The part of the Pro- 

 ceedings containing the notice of the exhibit was published on 



