Effects of Temperature on Tropical Marine Animals. 



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Table 4. 



12 13 14 15 KM 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 

 Degrees Centigrade 



27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 ^ 36 37 

 Degrees Centigrade 



Fig. 6, illustrating Table 4. Fig. 7, illustrating Table 5, 



Table 5. An Aurellia aurita at Tortugas, Florida, warmed from 2^.3 to 36.4 C. 



The parabola y = 0.0865x2 fits the observed facts fairly well. 



Similarly, table 5 and figure 7 show the decline in rate displayed by a 

 specimen of Aurellia aurita, from Tortugas, which was heated from 27.3 

 to 36.4 C, and the actual conditions are fairly well represented by the curve 

 y = 05I5^^ showing that in heating the rate declines about 6 times as 



