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whereas this Society views with regret the laws of several 
States which interfere with the above industry ; 
Resolved, That this Society favors legislation which will 
permit the sale and possession for food of trout and other 
useful fishes, which are artificially raised in private ponds 
and streams, at any time when within the provisions of 
the health ordinances. 
WHAT WE KNOW OF THE LOBSTER. 
BY FRED MATHER. 
Within a few years much has been learned of the life- 
history of our common lobster that we did not know before. 
We knew that the female carried the eggs after extrusion, 
attached in masses to the so-called swimerets under the 
abdomen, which is improperly called the “ tail,”’ and that 
they hatched there. In Bell’s ‘‘ British Crustacea” it is 
said that the mother cares for the young after hatching 
and can recall them for protection. My own observations 
are that the young scatter and find protection in the rocks. 
I am satisfied that the lobster carries her eggs all winter, 
and that all those laid after the middle of July, in Long 
Island Sound, will not hatch the same year, but eggs taken 
late last year afford a chance to give some figures which 
may be of value. On August 11, 1892, we took from 12 
lobsters 48 fluid ounces of eggs, which by actual count 
measured 6,000 tothe ounce, and on August 16 took from 
33 lobsters 94 ounces, making in all 822,000 egg or 18,266 
per lobster. Wecould not keep these eggs all winter, and 
they showed only slight developement a month later. 
No work that has occupied the attention of fishculturists 
compares with what may be done in replacing the lobster 
