Our knowledge of the placentation of the lemurs begins with the publication, in 1875, by A. Milne-Edwards and A. Grandidier, in their Historio naturelle des Maminifères de Madagascar/ of an account of the placenta in Propithecus and some other forms.

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This may be a hæmoglobin derivative, from the digestion of extra-vasated maternal hæmatids.

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