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ANNUAL EEPOET SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1924 



A count showed close upon 800 specimens (reproduced here in the 

 photograph, Plate 4, measurements in the graph, fig. 8). This 

 one liaul alone gave us a greater number of specimens of eel 

 larva} than had hitherto been obtained in the whole course of any 



expedition. It affords us, in conjunction with many other hauls 

 from the Dana stations, a clear idea of the enormous quantities in 

 which the young larva3 of the European eel are present here in the 

 western Atlantic. 



