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hatch or the resultant larvte survive. The researches carried on during the past 
few years at the Canadian Biological Laboratory at St. Andrews point unmistakably 
to the conclusion that few if any floating eggs of any groups of animals hatch success- 
Fig. 34.— Locality records lor buoyant flounder (pleuronectid) and gadoid eggs combined (a dot for each record of each 
species), 1912 to 1922 
fully in certain parts of the Bay of Fundy, this being particularly true for chaitognaths 
and fishes (Huntsman, 1922; Huntsman and Reid, 1921). As evidence of the un- 
suitability of the bay as a breeding ground for fishes with buoyant eggs, Huntsman 
