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rated from the ovarium, are ten times lefs than 

 before their feparation ; and this difference in 

 fize, he imagines, is owing to the eggs, while in 

 the ovarium, containing another matter, name- 

 ly, the glandulous liquor which he remarked in 

 the follicles. 



Four days after copulation, he opened another 

 rabbit, and found in one ovarium four, and in 

 the other three follicle?, void of eggs : In the 

 horns correfponding to the ovaria, he found four 

 eggs on one fide, and three in the other. Thefe 

 eggs were larger than thofe he had difcovered 

 three days after copulation. They were nearly 

 of the fize of the lead-fhot ufed for lliooting 

 fmall birds ; and he remarked, that, in thefe 

 eggs, the interior membrane was feparated from 

 the exterior, and appeared as if a fecond egg 

 v/as contained within the lirft. In another, dif- 

 fed:ed five days after copulation, he found five 

 empty follicles in the ovaria, and an equal num- 

 ber of eggs in the uterus, to which they adhe- 

 red very firmly. Thefe eggs were as large as 

 the fhot employed for killing hares ; and the in- 

 ternal membrane was fliil more apparent than 

 in the lafl experiment. Having opened another 

 rabbit, fix days after copulation, he found in 

 one of the ovaria fix empty follicles, but only 

 five eggs in the correfponding horn of the ute- 

 rus ; and they feemed to be all accumulated in- 

 to one mafs : In the other ovarium, he faw four 

 empty follicles, and found but one egg in the ; 



correfponding 



