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described by other writers as opening into the rete and ending 

 bhndly. Roth and Poirier regarded them as tubules which, after 

 acquiring a union with the rete, lost their connection with the 

 Wolffian duct; but the presence of the blind tubules I have de- 



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Fig. 4 Diagram of epididymal tubules of a seven months' fetus. Junctions 

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scribed renders unnecessary such an unlikely supposition as the 

 separation of the tubule and the duct after a new channel has 

 been formed. These tubules may lie inconspicuously among their 

 neighbors or, as in the seven months fetus, be grouped together 

 in a separate sheath of connective tissue. 



