PHILOSOPHICAL 
TRANSACTIONS. 
IX. Some Observations on the Mode of Generation of the Kan- 
garoo , with a particular Description of the Organs themselves. 
By Everard Home, Esq. F. R. S. 
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Read March 5, 1 795. 
The exertions of the most acute and skilful anatomists have 
hitherto failed, to explore the process of generation in the 
quadruped, fully to its origin : I think I may assert, they have 
ascertained that the embryo comes from the ovarium, and is 
deposited in the uterus, where it acquires a visible form ; but 
the state in which it leaves the ovarium, the changes it under- 
goes in the fallopian tube, and its appearance when received 
by the uterus, are hitherto altogether unknown. 
Although we are obliged to confess ourselves ignorant of 
many things respecting the commencement of generation, the 
progress of the young from its first visible appearance till it 
acquires a perfect form, has been very accurately traced ; but 
this may be considered as more properly belonging to the 
oeconomy of the young than to the history of generation itself. 
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