In the course of our inquiries into the subject of this note, we were curious to know the general sentiments of that eminent anatomist, Dr. Hunter, on three interesting questions. These were, what is the _usual_ period for a woman’s going with child, what is the _earliest_ time for a child’s being born alive, and what the _latest_. The answer, which he obligingly returned through a friend, we have liberty to publish; and it was expressed in the words following:—1. _The usual period is nine calendar months; but there is very commonly a difference of one, two, or three weeks._ 2. _A child may be born alive at any time from three months; but we see none born with powers of coming to manhood, or of being reared, before seven calendar months, or near that time. At six months it cannot be._ 3. _I have_ known _a woman bear a living child, in a perfectly natural way, fourteen days later than nine calendar months, and_ believe _two women to have been delivered of a child alive, in a natural way, above ten calendar months from the hour of conception_. [What follows is an extract from Sande’s _Decisiones Frisicæ_, being his report of the case, which in the preceding article is referred to as a decision by the supreme court of Friesland in 1634, for the legitimacy of a child born in the twelfth month after the husband’s death. It is taken from the fourth book, title 8, definition 10.] _“Partum à muliere, quæ non probabatur impudicè vixisse, editum duodecimo ab obitu viri mense, habitum legitimum et ad viri successionem admissum._ “Vir aliquamdiu valetudinarius, et per quatuordecim dies ante mortem lecto affixus, ex hac vita migravit die decimo Augusti, Anno 1631, relictâ uxore, quæ nono mensis Julii die anno insequenti peperit filiam, ita ut à die obitûs viri effluxerint dies naturales tricenti et triginta tres, qui efficiunt menses solares completos undecim cum tribus diebus, vel lunares ferè duodecim, sive annum integrum lunarem ab eo momento, quo vir animam reddidit. Quæsitum, an hæc filia legitima et ad successionem istius viri admittenda sit. “Inter Medicos et Physicos constat, quamvis hominis nascendi tempora sint varia, illa tamen ad certos limites revocari. Aristoteles enim _lib._ 7. _histor. animal._ ait, soli homini multiplex pariendi tempus datum: nam et septimo mense, et octavo et nono parere potest, et quod plurimum, decimo: nonnullas etiam mulieres undecimum mensem attingere. His conveniunt, quæ Plinius _lib._ 7. _natur. hist cap._ 5. scribit, nonnullas etiam mulieres undecimum mensem attingere.