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THE PERIODIC GROWTH OF SCALES IN GADID.E 



TABULAR RESULTS OF EXAMINATION 



N.B. — All the scales of this fish whicli were examined were seen to be more or less 

 disintegrated. Tlie measurements above were taken from one of the least disintegrated 

 scales ; but on account of the fact tliat many of the excentric lines had disappeared in the 

 median plane (A B"), the measurements interrogated, and the excentric lines in connection 



