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Correspondence . 
[August, 
AN EGG WITHIN AN EGG. 
To the Editor of the Journal of Science. 
Sir, — In “ Gardening Illustrated ”) June 23, 1883) Mr. H. E. 
Sprengle, of Grimsby, states as follows : — “ On June 1st one of 
my Brahma hens laid an egg which on account of its large size 
I determined to blow out and preserve. During the process I 
found, to my astonishment, that the egg contained another egg 
within. There was the white and yolk to each, and the shell of 
the inner egg was as hard as that of the outer one, I succeeded 
in blowing them both without accident. The egg measured in 
circumference 9 inches by 6f inches, but the inner one was barely 
half that size.” 
This appears to be a facft worth preserving ; therefore I send 
to your Journal the cutting. 
Some years ago I found a tolerably large cinder in an egg, 
which has been a continual wonder to me ; but an egg within an 
egg transcends my wonder, and points to the mode how the 
cinder got into the egg. — I am, &c., 
S. Billing. 
