AN UNUSUAL GRAAFIAN FOLLICLE. 



ELLISON A. SMYTH, Jr. 



In the fall of 1906 I became possessed of a young setter pup, 

 with an interesting family history : her mother a rather small 

 Gordon setter, had given birth to her first litter, to which my 

 pup belonged, in June, 1906, which litter consisted of fourteen 

 pups, four dogs and ten sluts. Two died when three or four 

 months old, and the rest were successfully raised. The mother 

 had seven tits in lactation. 



For reasons of convenience I had this pup spaed in March, 

 1907, she being then ten months old. The ovaries I killed at 



Fig. 1. 



once in Flemming's solution and sectioned for class use. They 

 showed a number of ripe follicles, not a few containing double 

 and^triple ova, though not all the extra ova were normal. Sev- 

 eral serial sections on one slide, however, showed a large follicle 



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