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continued to decrease with further loss of water. The time 



between the first and last determinations was too short to permit 



the starvation factor to enter into the results. The controls lost 



-'me water in the dur.it ion of a series, a period of about 8 hours. 



One control lost 6.29 per cent, of the body weight, the greatest 



loss of any control, while the experimental animal of the same 



-crier, lo-t 43.05 I" r rent, of the body weight. The respiration 



t" the control- -r.-med to be little, if at all, aft'ected by the 



! lit losses "I" \\atcr. 



Salamander, Plcthodon glntinosiis Greet;. The -alamanders 

 ^.i\e up w.iter \ery quickly. Results >!n>\\ that io per cent, of 

 their body \\ci;Jn \\.is lost in 15 minutes of de-i vatum. The 



'ic four individuals experimented upon \\ a- 4.' 

 it. of the 1>< n|y uci^ht, distributed over a pcrii-d i.f s hours. 



i 



Wfiyttf if* Tni/JirjrOrrts 



. 5. I ..tinn on th< xili ]: n of the 



-.ilaniaiuk-r. Control rurvt-s inlicatcd by Ic" ; numbers . ml to the 



i-xix-rinu-nt.i! .111 . . - . mtrol curves twice experim-nt:i! 



This individiKil li\cl < hours after the last de-i< \ition. Hall 



di--icc.ited Anibvstonni punctatnm to 47 per cent, of their 

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