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«‘ he conceived that the attire doth ferve as 
“the male for the generation of the feed. 
«¢ | immediately, replied, that I was of the 
‘¢ fame opinion; gave him fome reafons for 
“¢ it, and anfwered fome objections that might 
« oppofe them.” 
WueETuHER, as fome pretend, this com- 
pliment paid to Sir Thomas Millington, fhows- 
him to have been of this opinion before our 
author, I leave to the learned to determine ; 
for my part, I think the words cannot bear 
it, And Mr Ray (q) gives it for Dr Grew, 
without naming Sir Thomas. 
8. Dr Grew then proceeds to give the 
fum of his thoughts concerning this matter; 
and plainly afferts, as his opinion, that when 
the attire or apices break, or open, the glo- 
bules or duft falls down-on the feed-cafe or 
uterus, and touches it with a prolific virtue ; 
not by entering bodily, or as to its grofs fub- 
ftance, but only by communicating to it fome 
Jubtle and vivifie effuvia (r). 
9. Amone the firft who adopted this do- 
étrine, was Mr ‘fobn Ray, that great natu- 
ral hiftorian ; at firft indeed only as probable 
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(7) Hitt. p. 17. 
(r) See GRew’s anat. fol. p. 171. 
