Observations on the form of the Placenta and on the arrangement of the Fœtal membranes in the Seals have been recorded by more than one anatomist. Alessandrini of Bologna obtained a specimen of the Monk Seal (Phoca bicolor) Monachus albiventer, in the gravid condition, in which the uterus contained a single fœtus.
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Turner (1875) studied this question.