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southerly, fiom Xewbiggin to Tyuemoutli, and it is possible 
that in this case it may be accidental, as say from being 
caught by a trawler and thrown overboard in the process of 
cleaning the nets. In this instance there is no record as to 
sex. It has to be kept in mind that there is an annual migra- 
tion of crabs into deeper water and it is during this migration 
that at least the females which have recently cast segregate 
themselves in a northerlj' direction. 
This experiment has, we are led to understand, been con- 
firmed by an experiment made in the district of the North- 
Eastern Committee, and it will be interesting to see what 
result follows the experiment which is now being made by 
Mr, Dennison for the Eastern Committee. 
V Reports, 1903, p. 35 ; 1905, p. 98 ; 1906, p. 26 ; 1907, p. 22. 
Lobsters . — Tables 0 and 7. — Most of the lobsters were 
marked as the crabs by Mr. Tohn Douglas, Beaclnell. The 
total number marked was 312, 97 being females carrying 
eggs. Onlj^ one case of migration is recorded, that of a 
female which was found 10 miles north of the place of 
liberation. The number of recaptures is 65 or 21 per cent, 
of those liberated. 
V Reports, 1902, p. 40 ; 1908, p. 32 ; 1909, p. 23. 
