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MR. NEWPORT ON THE IMPREGNATION OF THE OVUM. ETC. 
From these and other experiments it results, that, when part of the black surface 
of the egg was certainly touched with the spermatic fluid, the head of the future 
embryo was turned towards it in ten eggs, and removed from it in only one ; and 
that the axis of the embryo nearly coincided at first with the line of the point touched, 
though it afterwards deviated to the left or right of that line (most to the left), the 
distance not exceeding fifteen degrees. 
When however the part of the egg to which the spermatic fluid was applied was 
not known, the axis kept much the same position as before, but the head was far 
distant from the impregnated spot in four out of sixteen instances. 
