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usually to be found in the same vicinity. As high as sixteen 

 pairs, and two instances of triple eggs, were counted in the 

 field at one time under a magnification of i lo diameters. This 

 is, of course, an exceptional condition. Commonly four or five 



Fig. 3. — X 370. A section of part of the ovary. Every egg in the field is a nuihiple form ; 

 /', /'i, c, c, , is a connected group of four ; /, the edge of a large egg. 



pairs are the most to be seen. Fig. 3 shows a section of a 

 part of the ovary magnified 370 diameters. By following out 

 the serial sections, the relations of the eggs represented in the 

 figure were determined. Examining them in such a manner, 

 a (Fig. 3) was found to be double ; b and b\ formed a double, 

 likewise c and c\ ; /; and c were also connected as doubles. Thus 



