The Embryology Of The Opossum

Excerpt from The Embryology of the Opossum After that change the females began to ovulate, and we got our first litters from animals which had been raised in cap tivity. In the spring and summer of 1935 we had 250 young born in the colony. This year (1937) we have some third generation, captive-born young; so we feel that at least our major problems must have been solved. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

"The primary objective of this atlas is to gather under one cover a series of photographic illustrations and line drawings that summarize major events during organogenesis in the opossum (Didelphis virginiana)."--p. iii.