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similar to that of the collections in Quiver Lake for this year, 
the only exception to the coincidence of collections, actual or 
approximate, being on December 29, when on account of rotten- 
ness of the ice it was not possible to get the collecting outfit to 
the station. 
The maximum production occurs in the vernal pulse in the 
last fortnight of April, culminating at 20.35em.* per m.* on the 
17th, though production is also large on the 24th (19.5). In Quiv- 
er Lake this maximum is on the 24th (16.76), though production 
is also large on the 17th (16.32). The maximum in channel 
waters (9.39) is also on the 24th. These differences in the time 
of the maxima may, I believe, be correlated directly with the 
thermal factor. For example, in both Quiver and Dogfish lakes 
the production is large and almost equal on the 17th and 24th, 
but is greater in Dogfish Lake on the 17th and in Quiver Lake 
on the 24th. This lag in the maximum is correlated with the 
fact that surface temperatures in Quiver Lake on the 17th and 
24th are respectively 3° and .8° lower than they are in Dogfish 
Lake. On the 17th the latter is 8° warmer than the river. After 
all allowances are made for the time of day at which tempera- 
ture records are taken, it isstill evident that the shallower waters 
of Dogfish Lake would warm up more quickly than the spring- 
fed waters of Quiver Lake or the deeper channel waters, and 
we have found that the thermal increase favors the earlier rise 
in plankton production. 
The coincidence of the dates of collection makes possible 
a precise comparison of the production in the two lakes, and 
facilitates the comparison with that of the river. A superposi- 
tion of the planktographs of Dogfish and Quiver lakes and the 
river (Pl. XXXI., XX VIL, and X.) for this year emphasizes far 
better than any description the most striking similarity at the 
three stations of the movement of plankton production as shown 
by the direction of the differences in plankton content in suc- 
cessive collections. The correlation between production in 
Quiver Lake and the river in this year—discussed in detail on 
pages 357-360—is paralleled in every important detail by the 
