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Among common dabs the observed weights are always in excess also, 

 with one exception, where the calculated weight for a fish of 12cm. is 

 14 80 and the weight observed was 14*7 grammes. The difference in the 

 smaller forms here is not so great as in those of moderate size. At 6cm. 

 the calculated weight was 1 36 grammes and the observed weight 1*85 ; 

 at 10cm. the calculated weight was 7 "76 and the actual weight 

 12-31 ; at 8cm. the calculated weight was 32*96 and the weight observed 

 34*3 grammes; at 20cm. the calculated weight was 69*76 and the actual 

 weight 74*7 ; at 24cm. the calculated weight was 117-6 and the weight 

 observed 142-3; at 30cm. the calculated weight was 224*8 and the 

 actual weight 296-4 ; at 36cm. the calculated weight was 403*2 and 

 the weight observed 487 grammes. 



It was the same with the lemon dab, no exception being found. The 

 calculated weight at 15cm. was 26*8 and the real weight 32*3 ; at 31cm. 

 the former was 288 8 and the observed weight was 354 grammes ; 

 at 36cm. the respective weights were 436*8 and 595 grammes, and at 40cm. 

 they were respectively 714*4 and 788 grammes. With the Norway 

 pout, the herring, the sprat, the long rough dab, the cod, the witch, and 

 the whiting the same method shows the same general result, an excess of 

 weight over that to be deduced from the law. I append here some of 

 the figures where this appears : — 



Table. 



