Law Governing Loss of Weight in Starving Cassiopea, 



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Table 6 shows the decline in weight of 10 normal medusae of Cassiopea 



xamachana starved 25 days in filtered sea-water in the diffuse light of the 



laboratory from June 22 to July 17, 1910, at Tortugas, Florida. The 



medusae were kept in a 6-liter glass aquarium, the water being changed 



once in each 24 hours. 



Table 6. 



'According to formula y = 131(1 0.046)^ 



*No weighing. 



10 medusae of Cassiopea starved 

 2S days in diffuse day-light 



12 3 



5 6 



8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 

 Days X 

 Diagram illustrating Table 6. 



Table 7 shows the decline in weight of 1 1 normal medusae of Cassiopea 

 xamachana starved 22 days in filtered sea-water in the diffuse light of the 



