62 THOMPSON YATES LABORATORIES REPORT 
Table VIII gives a number of cases in which the maximum number did not 
occur at mid-day nor midnight. 
TABLE VIII 
Name 
Date 
Number of Embryos in three specimens 
AT : 
A.M. 
P.M. 
3 
6 
9 
3 
6 
y 
i 2 
Etta 
3 
Vll 
00 
1 2 
3 
8 
20 
46 
2 5 
2 1 
2 1 
jumbo ... 
3- 
vii 
00 
0 
1 
2 
4 
18 
4 
0 
0 
Efion 
I 2. 
VI. 
00 
0 
1 1 
7 
S 
16 
6 ' 
0 
0 
Greenslade 
I 2. 
vii 
00 
0 
> 
28 
54 
76 
81 
15 
0 
Glasgow- 
I 2. 
vii 
00 
4 
35 
9 
20 
49 
3 
0 
Joe 
I 2. 
vii 
00 
3 
0 
0 
0 
0 
4 
12 
6 
Oparobo 
I 2. 
vi. 
00 
20 
0 
0 
0 
0 
10 
48 
26 
Kelba 
I 2 
vii 
00 
2 
1 
0 
3 
5 
8 
15 
7 
James ... 
I 2. 
vii 
00 
7 
0 
1 
0 
0 
0 
11 
9 
Abraham 
27. 
vii 
.00 
0 
1 
0 
1 
0 
0 
4 
2 
Sumana 
27. 
vii 
.00 
7 
0 
0 
0 
0 
' 7 
21 
9 
Ajaca 
2 7- 
vii 
.00 
9 
20 
1 0 
5 
3 
35 
18 
Emordi... 
2 7- 
viii 
.00 
54 
5 
0 
3 
3 
15 
2 2 
44 
Arrigwc 
1 2. 
vi. 
00 
'4 
25 
r 
5 
27 
8 
18 
5 
8 
Mark 
1 2. 
vi. 
00 
2 
66 
28 
2 2 
18 
2 
1 
Okohorsfall 
20. 
vii 
00 
4 2 
43 
54 
26 
2 5 
29 
5 
9 
Deauma 
20. 
vii. 
00 
4 
60 
130 
68 
47 
1 
1 
0 
Robert ... 
1 2. 
vii, 
00 
0 
8 
84 
58 
66 
47 
0 
0 
Etim 
12. 
vi. 
00 
3 
6 
16 
6 
8 
0 
0 
0 
Thorpe 1 examined a number ot natives of the Friendly Islands ; but 
his results, as recorded in the article referred to, do not permit very definite 
conclusions. We have however reproduced them in the following tables copied from 
his article. 
1 . Thorpe, British Medical Journal, 1896, vol. li, p. 922 
