3434 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Q. Now, the result of this is that they are warm-blooded ? A. No. 

 They are not. You are a warm-blooded animal. 



Q. Then you cannot answer without referring personally to me! A. 

 Well, I am a warm-blooded animal. 



Q. That does not help me, because you do not appear in that capacity, 

 but as a witness of certain facts. A man is a warm blooded animal, 

 and so is a seal ? A. Yes. 



Q. Now, are these animals, or creatures, that cause this change in the 

 thermometer are they of the warm-blooded sort? A. Certainly not. 



Q. They are not cold blooded? A. There is no such thing as a cold- 

 blooded animal. 



Q. Then what can you predicate of them if they are not warm-blooded, 

 and there is no such thing as a cold-blooded animal ? A. Fish are crea- 

 tures whose temperature is from 2 to 4 above that of the medium in 

 which they live. Diatoms are vegetables. 



Q. They have blood ? A. Fish and animalcule have. 



Q. You did not attribute the fact to the blood ? A. The blood is the 

 agent by which the heat is produced in animals. 



Q. Then it is the existence of the blood in them that causes the heat 

 to be produced and given out? A. It is the existence of the blood 

 which is the means of producing the beat. 



Q. And that they communicate to the surrounding water? A. Yes. 



Q. And that causes the temperature to do which, to rise or fall ? A. 

 To rise. 



Q. Now, then, can you tell me hadn't you that in mind when you 

 answered my question? I don't mean in the least to call your statement 

 in question, but hadn't you all that in your mind when you answered 

 my question that they were cold-blooded? Y"ou answered that they 

 were cold-blooded. A. I made use of it as a popular phrase. 



Q. Would that as a popular phrase apply to a warm-blooded animal ? 

 A. No, certainly not. 



Q. You really think that these animals raise the temperature to that 

 degree? A. Yes, the mass of minute life raises the temperature by 2 

 or 3, unquestionably so. 



By Mr. Foster : 



Q. Are they visible to the eye ? A. Yes. They were also discovered 

 to a considerable extent by Sir Wyville Thomson in the subarctic re- 

 gions. You will find a full description of them published. 



By Mr. Dana: 



Q. The place where I found the reference in your testimony does not 

 refer to Dr. Brown. A. Yes, I referred, if you recollect, to the state- 

 ments made in this manuscript. 



Q. I mean in your testimony yesterday ? A. I referred to this manu- 

 script. 



(Witness states at this stage that the remark occurring in his testi- 

 mony of yesterday, in reference to mackerel coming into the bay on the 

 20th of June, is correct. It appears that he had previously stated it 

 was a mistake.) 



Q. The mackerel spawn in deep sea, do they not ? A. Yes, sir. We 

 have, however, no evidence here in America; but in Europe they have 

 been caught far out in the sea. 



Q. Have you any doubt that is true of the American coast? A. No; 

 I think they will spawn anywhere where the water is cold enough. 



Q. You think they will spawn in the deep seal A. Y"es. 



Q. You were asked by Mr. Thomson to compare the two species of 



