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oysters of about or under an inch in length, and in 1895 and 96 such a group 
was found at many places where a large number of oysters were fished on a bank 
(see Table II. No. 1, 2, 3 etc). å 
It is possible that I have missed seeing the small spat on the banks in 
1895, as in later years I found them in the autumn (see e.g, Table II No. 12, 
September 1896 at Bjørndrup); but the specimens were then only //,—Y, inch 
long, and it surprised me that they were so small as they were much larger on 
artificial objects; see e.g. Table II No. 18 for September 19th 1896, i.e. the same 
year in which a welled-box belonging to the Station, which had remained in the 
water from the spring of 1896 till then, was found to be covered by ca. 25,000 
young oysters of up to 1!/, inches in length (see figures on pp. 24—25), on an 
average they were /, inch in length. On the tile collectors at Ørodde the 1895 
