14-2 Mtfcellanea Curiofa, 



A Difcourfe concerning the Modern 

 Theory of Generation, by Dr. 

 George Garden of Aberdeen, 

 being fart of a Letter to Dr. Wil- 

 liam Mufgrave, L. L. D. Reg. 

 Soc. S. and by him communicated 

 the Royal Society, 



TH E Subject I pitch upon, is that of the 

 Formation cf Animals, You know how 

 wide and unfatisfying Men's Conjectures were 

 upon this Head, until this Age, in which firlV 

 the defervedly Famous Dr. Harvey difcovered 

 the proper pface of the Formation of the Chick 

 in the Cicatricula of the Egg, and the Forma- 

 tion of the Parts fb far as was difcernable by the 

 naked Eye 5 and after him Malpigbius, by the 

 help of exact Glafles, obferv'd the firft Rudi- 

 ments of it there, both before and after Incuba- 

 tion : And fl. de Gr/ief, and others, having 

 upon many Obfervations concluded, that the 

 Tefles Faminci were the Ovaries of Females, and 

 confequently that all Animals were ex ovo \ they 

 began from hence to infer, that the Rudiments 

 of each Animal were originally in the refpedtive 

 Females, and that the Male contributed only 

 to give a new Ferment to the Mafs of the Blood 

 and Spirits, by which means a fpirituous Li- 

 quor (which the Blood in its ordinary Ferment 

 could not produce) did infinuatc it felf into 



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