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swept in by the currents and entangled in the meshes. The isolated egg had the 

 same characters as the eggs in the mass." He concludes that there are few eggs, 

 if indeed any, with which it can be confounded. 



Altogether, 156 isolated eggs have been taken m the collections made by the 

 Goldseeker in the eleven years 1904-1914. These records are, therefore, very 

 numerous when compared with previous records of isolated eggs. The occurrence 

 of these is given in the accompanying table and chart. 



[Table. 



