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most favorable depth. I can corroborate Dean in all these statements, excepting only that 

 I caught all my eels in water measuring from thirty to thirty-five fathoms deep, and failed 

 to catch any in shallower water. 



DATA PERTAINING TO BDELLOSTOMA BURGERl 

 COLLECTED BY BASHFORD DEAN ON THE COAST OF JAPAN 



During the year 1900-1901 Dean was fishing along the coast of Japan, searching for 

 the embryos of Bdellostoma hurgeri. He tabulated the daily catches of hagfish in his note- 

 book, listing information as follows for each of 569 specimens: 



TABLE I 

 DATA FOR BDELLOSTOMA BURGERL AUG. 29, 18-20 FATHOMS 



Dean wrote these tables in the same notebook (the smaller one) which he used for 

 recording observations on Bdellostoyna stouti while fishing in Monterey Bay. For instance, 

 on two pages of the notebook he wrote an outline, evidently for titles of paragraphs, with 

 the caption : "Bdellostoma. Habitat in Bay of Monterey"; following that are two pages 

 of notes, then two blank pages; the next eleven pages are used for the tabulations illus- 

 trated above. In these tables the day of the month is indicated, but not the year. In the 

 larger notebook marked "Bdellostoma Notes, IV," is a table which was evidently com- 

 piled from the data given in the tables recorded in the smaller notebook. This table is 

 reproduced here: 



