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J. P. HfLL AND CHAS. H. o’dONOGIIUE. 
Capillaries are present here and there below the uterine epi- 
theliunij but are not specially abundant. 
Case 2 (No. 14, 26 . vii . ^02). — The following is our note- 
book record of this female : 
24 . vi . ^02. — Eeceived. 
4.vii.^02. — Cloacal margins commencing to swell. 
11 . vii .^02. — Cloacal margins still swollen. 
21 . vii . ^02. — Copulation. 
24 . vii . ’02. — Pouch slightly tumid, not moist. 
26 . vii . ’02. — Pouch slightly tumid; killed, i.e. five days 
after copulation. 
Examination of the ovaries revealed the presence of mature 
follicles containing ripe ova in which the first polar body was 
already separated and the second polar spindle established. 
The mucosa has a maximum thickness of 2*4 mm. The 
uterine epithelium has made little or no progress, and appears 
as a low columnar epithelium (*02 mm. in thickness) with 
close-set ovalish nuclei. Here and there, between the ordinary 
epithelial cells, there occur single very narrow cells with 
darkly staining cytoplasm and compressed deeply staining 
nuclei. 
The uterine glands (averaging *048 mm. in diameter) do 
not differ essentially from those of cestral Case 2, and are 
rather less advanced than those of the preceding uterus. 
They are well convoluted and lined by the usual ciliated 
columnar epithelium. Their lumina are for the most part 
distinct but small. 
The connective tissue is more cedematous than that of the 
preceding case, and contains in places much coagulum. 
Numerous leucocytes are present in it. The mucosa is, on 
the whole, more vascular than that of Case 1, though the 
superficial capillaries are not yet greatly developed. 
So far as can be judged from these two cases, it would 
appear that during this post-cestral period, no very marked 
advance is made by the uterine mucosa, the uteri being, on 
the whole, very similar to those of the cestral period. 
