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the same in 1924 (3.13°, station 10653) as in 1925 (3.97° and 4.04° at Fish Hawk 
stations 30 and 32). 
Out in the open basin, off Cape Ann, the surface warmed from 6.1° on May 4, 
1915 (station 10267), to 13.6° on June 26 (station 10299), or at about the same rate 
Fiq. 39.— Surface temperature in mid-June from all available sources. The dotted curves are based on Dixon’s (1901) 
tabulation 
as in Massachusetts Bay in 1925. The 40-meter temperature, however, rose by only 
1.5° during the interval (from about 5.2° to about 6.8°), while virtually no change 
took place at 90 meters or deeper (fig. 5). It is probable, also, that the seasonal 
