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IN a memoir on the development of the Tuatara, which I am shortly about to publish, and upon my preliminary notes on which an interesting comment by Mr. G. A. Boulenger, F.R.S., has recently appeared in the pages of this journal (NATURE, vol. lviii. p. 619), I have come to the conclusion that the eggs of this reptile hatch about December of the year following that in which they are laid, and that they thus occupy about thirteen months in their development. Hitherto, so far as I am aware, no specimens have actually been hatched out in captivity, or under direct observation.
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DENDY, A. The Hatching of Tuatara Eggs. Nature 59, 340 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/059340b0
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