The table Chevasse quoted from Galabin is as follows—
| From | Jan. 1st to Oct. 1st = 273 (274) | days, | add | 5 (4) | days |
| „ | Feb. 1st to Nov. 1st = 273 (274) | „ | „ | 5 (4) | „ |
| „ | Mar. 1st to Dec. 1st = 275 | „ | „ | 3 | „ |
| „ | Apl. 1st to Jan. 1st = 275 | „ | „ | 3 | „ |
| „ | May 1st to Feb. 1st = 276 | „ | „ | 2 | „ |
| „ | June 1st to Mar. 1st = 273 (274) | „ | „ | 5 (4) | „ |
| „ | July 1st to Apl. 1st = 274 (275) | „ | „ | 4 (3) | „ |
| „ | Aug. 1st to May 1st = 273 (274) | „ | „ | 5 (4) | „ |
| „ | Sep. 1st to June 1st = 273 (274) | „ | „ | 5 (4) | „ |
| „ | Oct. 1st to July 1st = 273 (274) | „ | „ | 5 (4) | „ |
| „ | Nov. 1st to Aug. 1st = 273 (274) | „ | „ | 5 (4) | „ |
| „ | Dec. 1st to Sep. 1st = 274 (275) | „ | „ | 4 (3) | „ |
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FOOTNOTES
[1] Charles Richet, “De la Variation mensuelle de la Natalité,” 1916, Comptes rendus Acad. Sciences, Paris, pp. 141-149 and 161-166.
[2] By this I mean the motherhood which carries and protects the developed young within the mother’s body, unlike that of the lower animals, such as fishes, which leave the eggs to their fate.
[3] In this, and in most of the generalisations found in this book, I am speaking of things as they are in Great Britain. While to a considerable extent the same is true of America and the Scandinavian countries, it must be remembered all through that I am speaking of the British, and primarily of our educated classes.
[4] That is to say, repeating the history of our very early ancestors, where the female probably felt some resentment towards the male who had encompassed her maternity, and who most certainly would live apart from her and not in the ordinary contact of a united life.
[5] This book has been reprinted in a modern expurgated and mutilated edition, which deprives the reader of the most valuable portions of the author’s work. I should advise readers to see one of the original early editions if they desire to read the book intended by the author for the public.
[6] Balzac: Physiologie du Mariage.