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that the date given is earlier than that at which dead fish and 

 crabs usually appear. This apparent discrepancy vanishes when 

 we remember that the date given is old style : to bring it into 

 agreement with the present calendar ten days must be added, thus 

 bringing the date to 15th August; last year abnormally fine 

 weather prevailed during the last week of August, with the result 

 that kedunir and dead fish and crabs were noticed at Cannanore 

 during that week, thereby reproducing almost to the day the 

 phenomenon of 1507- 



Addendum. 

 The above account was written in November 1916 immediately 

 after my return from Cannanore in October. I brought away a 

 small bottle containing a quantity of euglenid jelly with a view 

 to ascertain the odour it would give out when dead and undergoing 

 decomposition. The jelly has refused however to decompose. 

 The bottle has stood upon my desk from October till now (17th 

 March 1917), and under the microscope the jelly shows almost 

 precisely the same appearance it did when first the free-swimming 

 euglenids passed into this resting condition. The one difference 

 I note is that the chloroplasts are now distinctly more green than 

 when the jelly-stage was entered upon ; the colour then was a 

 distinct olive brown in the mass, now it is a dark olive green. 

 The gelatinous matrix seems also somewhat reduced. 1 propose 

 devoting attention during its next seasonal appearance to a further 

 elucidation of its life-history. 



