Excerpt from An Atlas of the Fertilization and Karyokinesis of the Ovum

The set of photographs here published is selected from a set of nearly two hundred negatives. The series is incomplete in some particulars and the figures vary considerably in effectiveness, but as circumstances render it impracticable at present to publish a larger number, 'the series is put forth as it stands, in the hope that it may serve a useful purpose. In order to render the work more useful for students an introduction has been prepared in which the more important facts are briefly reviewed from a general point of view. A series of explanatory text figures are also given as a key to the phototypes. These figures are from camera lucida drawings of the object (in many cases the same specimen photographed), and although necessarily Slightly schematic, they are in no sense mere diagrams (except in a few cases, as stated in the explanations), but are attempts to represent as closely as possible the actual appearance of the object.

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