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tailed report of his findings is published in the annual report of the 

 Director of the Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie Insti- 

 tution of Washington (Carnegie Year Book, 1913, pp. 217-219). 

 The results of these experiments so far obtained may l)e summed up 

 as follows : 



Fk;. 28. — "Peanut" shells on li\in'-; vci^elatidii. Key W'esl, Flurida. 

 Photograph hy Bartsch. 



After looking over the entire i)lantings. Dr. liartsch is inclined to 

 believe that, with the exception of the Tea Table and Indian Keys, 

 the colonies are doing as well as might be expected. It is also (juite 

 possible that when the young in the various colonies attain a larger 

 size, a good many more will be found in the various places, in fact, 



