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8. A PRELIMINARY SURVEY OF THE SHORES OF THE Bay, FOR THE 
Purpose OF DETERMINING THOSE PorTIONS WHICH IN THE 
Past WERE PRODUCTIVE CLAM BEDs. 
Your Commission has spent considerable time in visiting various 
portions of the bay, and finding from the older residents those lo- 
ealities which have been known to be productive clam beds. These 
data are on file with the Commission, and when we have added to 
them the areas now naturally seeded by the remarkable set of 1899, 
it is our purpose to issue a chart which will show the total area 
which might be inhabited by the clam. 
9. AN INVESTIGATION OF THE Lire-Hapits oF THE CLAM, ITS 
BREEDING Prrtiop, Its Foop, Irs Rare or Growrn, Its 
NarvuraL ENEMIES, AND EXPERIMENTS TO TEST THE Frasi-— 
BILITY OF ARTIFICIAL PROPAGATION. 
This work was intrusted to Dr. A. D. Mead, who has prepared 
the following report : 
