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So far as these experiments go they point to a crustacean diet 

 being most suitable for the larval lobsters, experiments 5 and 9. 

 Mussels are next in value, but are inferior to shore crabs, and fish 

 is practically of no value. Ox liver does not seem to be of much 

 use, but is evidently less harmful than fish liver, which appears to 

 have a most detrimental effect, experiments 8, 9, 10 and 11. There 

 is no doubt that fish fiver was eaten, since after the larvae had been 

 fed for two or three daj^s the food contained in the stomach made 

 the colour of the larvae, in the thoracic region, considerably fighter. 



The larvae after being counted were put to sea. 



That the water in the rearing tanks should be constantly in 

 motion was emphasised from observations made during the experi- 

 ments, and it is becoming more and more evident that no great 

 success mU be obtained in the rearing of larval lobsters until, as 

 suggested by Professor Meek in this Report, New Series, III., x^age 

 81, some modification of the floating tank sj^stem, suitable to the 

 localitv, is used. 



