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Researches.

During the summer of 1885, while at Wood's Holl, Mass., the curator began the experiments with respect to the artificial propagation of lobsters, which were continued with great success during the spring of 1886, by Capt. H. C. Chester and Mr. John A. Ryder. Acting upon information obtained from Norway, that the eggs of the lobster could be kept alive and hatched even if removed from the body of the parent, several trials were made with the hatching apparatus then in use, although it was known that the hatching season for the year was over. The purpose of these experiments was to ascertain the best methods of handling the eggs, in order that there might be as little delay as possible in commencing

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Woods Hole, Mass.