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Investigations on the Life,- History 



From the foregoing Tables 1 and 2, the following shorter Tables are 

 constructed. In them the total nitrogen of the muscle and of the ovaries 

 is expressed, not as the total ot the individual fish, but for purposes of 

 comparison as the total of the fish of standard length (vide page 6). 



TABLE III. 



Showing Amount of Nitrogen per Fish of Standard Length in 

 Muscle and Ovaries. 



FEMALE ESTI T ARY FISH, 1896. 

 May and June. 



Juli/ and August. 



October and Xovembw. 



65 

 73 



74 



Average, 



