Mtfcellanea Curiofa, 1 5 1 



within which the Ova are formed, which break 

 through a (mail Papilla opening in the Glandule* 

 which bears a proportion to the Aperture of 

 the Tube. They object 3, The difficulty to 

 conceive how thefe Eggs ftiould be impregnated 

 per femen Maris , both becaufe there is no Con- 

 nexion between the Tuba and the Ovary .fcr its 

 tranfmiflion, and for that Dr. Harvey could ne- 

 ver difcover any thing of it in Utero. As to 

 the laft, Mr. Lcexvenhocck. has cleared that diffi- 

 culty, by the difcovery of innumerable Animal* 

 cula Seminis Maris in Cornubus Uteris and thofe 

 living a confiderable time after Coition. Numb, 

 174. of the TranfatJ. And as to the former, we 

 may either fuppofe that there is fuch an Infla- 

 tion of the Tuba or Comua Uteri tempore Coitionis> 

 as makes them embrace the Ovarii, and fuch an 

 approach of the Vterus and it?? Comua, as that 

 I may eafily * tranfmit the Seed into the Ovary ; 

 or elfe, that the Ova are impregnated by the 

 Animalcles after they defcend into the 4 Uterus* 

 and not in the Ovary \ the former feems pro- 

 bable for this Reafbn, that at lead a whole Clu- 

 tter of Eggs in a Hen will be fecundated by one 

 Tread of - the Cock : Now this Fecundation 

 feems to be in the Vitellary, and not in the 

 Uterus, as the Eggs pafs along from day to day ; 

 for it can hardly be fuppofed that the Animal- 

 cles ftiould mbfiH fo long, being Mattered loofe- 

 ly in the Uterus, as to wait there for many days 

 for the Fecundation of the Eggs as they pafs 

 along. The latter Conjecture has this to flreng- 

 then it, that the Animalcles are found to live 

 a confiderable time in the Vterus ; and that if 

 they ftiould impregnate the Ova in the Ovary- 

 it felf, the Fcetus- would increafe fo fail, that 

 the Ova could not pafs through the Tuba Uteri, 

 L 4 but 



