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TABLE 17 



Examples of Oxygen Consumption at Various Tensions in Organisms 

 Whose Respiration Is Independent of the Tension over 

 A Wide Range. 



Harnisch, 1929 and 1939; Cook, 1932; Bodine, 1934; Fox, 

 Wingfield and Simmonds, 1937; Morgan and Wilder, 

 1936). 



The reasons advanced to explain how these animals 

 can maintain a more or less uniform oxygen consumption 

 over a wide range of tensions are fundamentally all con- 

 cerned with the facility with which oxygen enters into 

 the body and with the ease of its distribution to the 

 various tissues. Some of these reasons may be mention- 



