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sufficient for us to state here that the conditions which favor the 

 chance of mutilation in the lobster are, like the conditions of food 

 supply, evenly distributed in all localities and can have no influence 

 in causing variations in the rate of growth of groups of lobsters in 

 different places, although in single instances their effect in retarding 

 the rate of growth may be great. 



