790 DEVELOPMENT OF THE WOLFFIAN BODIES, ETC. 



below that point only by about six millimetres. It is also slightly ante- 

 flexed at the junction of the body and cervix. After birth, the uterus, 

 together with its appendages, continues to descend ; and at the period 

 of puberty its fundus is situated just below the level of the symphysis 

 pubis. 



The ovaries at birth are narrow and elongated in form. They contain 

 at this time an abundance of eggs ; each inclosed in a Graafian follicle, 

 and averaging .04 millimetre in diameter. The vitellus is imperfectly 

 formed in most of them, and in some is hardly to be distinguished. The 

 Graafian follicle at this period envelops each egg closely, there being no 

 fluid between its internal surface and the exterior of the egg, but only 

 the thin layer of cells forming the "membrana granulosa." Inside this 

 layer is to be seen the germinative vesicle, with the germinative spot, 

 surrounded by a faintly granular vitellus, more or less abundant in dif- 

 ferent parts. Some of the Graafian follicles containing eggs are as large 

 as .05 millimetre; others as small as .02 millimetre. In the very 

 smallest, the cells of the membrana granulosa appear to fill entirely the 

 cavity of the follicle, concealing the rudiments of the primitive egg. 



