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have found in the case of the Finner ; only that in this 

 case there is no difference to be discovered between the 

 male and female fish. The median ratio is about 38-5 per 

 cent, for males and 38-2 per cent, for females, giving, for 

 a 45-feet fish, a girth of 17-3 feet in the male and 17-2 

 feet in the female in other words, a wholly insignificant and 

 negligible difference. There is here, as in the case of the 

 Finner, a perceptible tendency for the girth to increase 

 in a greater ratio than the length. On the other hand, there 

 is much less sign, and probably no real evidence, of a 

 tendency for the girth to increase from month to month 

 during the fishing season. 



Ratio of Lejigik to Girt/i in the Sei-ivhale 

 {median and qnartile values). 



The corresponding values for the several years are very 

 irregular. In some years the relative girth is apparently 

 much less than in others ; but there is no close correspond- 

 ence in this respect between the males and the females, and 

 this is enough in itself to throw doubt on the value or 

 trustworthiness of our results. Thus the smallest average 



