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The relation of the order of the eggs in the clutch to 

 the prospective sex of the offspring is an important 

 point, and we wish here to make this situation clear, 

 since it seems that two rather brief statements made in 

 1911 and 1912, before the Society of Zoologists, have not 

 been understood by all. 



From the time of Aristotle to the present year there 



