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to any particular Seafon, or at any Time, in thofe 
Females which are unconfined in this particular, 
were the real productive Organs contributory alone 
to Generation j yet dill with a View to the antient 
Opinion of Eggs, for he fuppofed thefe glandulous 
Excrefcences to be real oviparous Productions. Mr. 
de Buff on, on the contrary, long before Obfervation 
had realiz’d his Conjectures, rightly thought thefe to 
no more than temporary Blofloms, if I may fo term 
them, not containing in their Cavity, which they 
have diftinCt when they are ripe, an Egg, but the 
real Female Seed 5 that the whitifh Specks, fcatter’d 
upon the Surface of Female Ovaries, were partly the 
remaining Scars of fomc of thefe temporary Blof- 
foms now faded, as having perform’d their deftin’d 
Office, or Embryo - Blofloms not yet expanded ; 
that the Hydatid annexed to each of thefe contained 
a Quantity of imperfect indigefted Seed; and that, 
if we took the Bloflom in time, when it fhould be 
intirely ripe for ACtion, as when a Female is in Heat, 
or not barren, thefe red glandulous Excrefcences 
would furnilh a Fluid as really productive of true 
fpcrmatic Animals, or organical Parts, as he calls 
them, as that of any Male obferv’d by Hartfoeker f 
Lewenhoeck > or any other. The Refult of thefe Con- 
jectures was, that, ordering a Bitch in Heat to be 
ftrangled, and diflected immediately, we found two 
of thefe red Excrefcences florid and ripe, one up* 
on each Ovary, thefe, from their refpective Cavi- 
ties that ran obliquely under thefe Productions for 
near an Inch in Length, furnifh’d a Tea-fpoonrul of 
a thick turbid Fluid ; and this Fluid, obferv’d in 
the Microfcope with the mod powerful Magnifier, 
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