Miscellanea Curiosa.

between the Infundibulum , in Hens and Frogs, and the Ovary; and yet it cannot be denied that the Eggs are transmitted thro' this into the Uterus : And besides R. de Graef , and others, have by repeated Observations found that the Cornua Uteri do at certain times after Conception, embrace the Testes on both sides the Uterus . They object in the second place the great disproportion between the pretended Eggs in the Ovary , and the Aperture of the Tubæ or Cornua Uteri , the former being a great deal bigger than the latter: But both R. de Graef and Malpighius have clear'd that Matter, by making appear, that these Bladders in the Ovary are not the Ova , but serve to form the Glandules within which the Ova are formed, which break through a small Papilla opening in the Glandule , which bears a proportion to the Aperture of the Tube. They object 3, The difficulty to conceive how these Eggs should be impregnated per semen Maris , both because there is no Connexion between the Tubæ and the Ovary for its transmission, and for that Dr. Harvey could never discover any thing of it in Utero . As to the last, Mr. Leewenhoeck has cleared that difficulty, by the discovery of innumerable Animalcula Seminis Maris in Cornubus Uteri , and those living a considerable time after Coition. Numb. 174. of the Transact. And as to the former, we may either suppose that there is such an Inflation of the Tubæ or Cornua Uteri tempore Coitionis , as makes them embrace the Ovaria , and such an approach of the Uterus and its Cornua , as that I may easily transmit the Seed into the Ovary ; or else, that the Ova are impregnated by the Animalcles after they descend into the Uterus , and not in the Ovary ; the former seems probable for this Reason, that at least a whole Cluster of Eggs in a Hen will be fecundated by one Tread of the Cock: