REPORT OF COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND FISHERIES. 43 
An Account of the Experiments with this Newly-devised 
Apparatus. 
It should be understood, in the first place, that the object was 
not to obtain the greatest possible number of “lobsterlings” in 
the fourth stage, but to ascertain how high a per cent. of the 
newly-hatched specimens could be reared to that stage under 
varying conditions. 
Some of the fry were brought from the United States Fish 
Commission hatching-station, at Wood’s Hole, by train, as there 
were at that time no boats available for transporting them, and 
were not in as good condition as those obtained in the season of 
1900. The greater portion of those in our experiments, however, 
were hatched in the floating laboratory, at Wickford, from eggs 
obtained at Newport. 
The following table gives the more important facts in respect to 
the several experiments : 
