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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10783, 3 June 1911, Page 2 (Supplement)

"Do you enjoy your meals, old man?" "Do I enjoy my meals?" snorted the indignant dyspeptic. "My meals are merely guide-posts to take medicine before or after." There was recently had before the Zoological Society of London a mathematical discussion of the differences in the shape of eggs. A few eggs, like those of the owl and the tortoise, are spherical, or nearly so: a few, like the grebe's or the cormorant's, are elliptical. with svmniflirical ends: the great majority, like the hen's, are ovoid, or blunter at one end than the other. The lien's eg EC is always laid blunt end foremost. Tiggs that arc the most nnsymmetrinal are also eggs of large size relatively to the parent bird. The yolks of eggs nro spherical, whatever the form of the entire egg may he. This has been .shown to be due to their being enclosed in a fluid, the "white," which makes the pressure everywhere on the surface of the yolk practically constant.