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CHAPTER III. 



ON THE TRANSPORT OP OVA. 



Having taken the ova, the next question that occurs 

 . is how to convey it to its destination. It has teen 

 a very popular error that ova will not admit of 

 carriage without some one to carry it or attend it 

 until it is so far advanced that the eye became 

 visible. Now, this really is not so ; for I hit upon 

 a plan, which was carried out by Mr. Woodcock, of 

 Bury, during the past year, by which we managed 

 to convey thousands of ova by rail' some 200 

 miles, with little or no attention. The plan was 

 simply to obtain permission from the railway au^ 

 thorities to have the vessel which contained the ova 

 swung from one of the beams of the van. A hook 

 was screwed in ; the vessel containing the ova, filled 

 to the top with water, so that tw motion of the water 

 in the jar could take place, was then hung up, de- 

 pending from the hook; a small half-pint bottle of 

 fresh water was given to the guard, to fill in a little 



