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THE'?BIOLOGY OF FISHES
Mediterranean, ]ohs. Schmidt extended the scope of his
investigations out in the Atlantic. By this time he had
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found from Careful examination and comparison of the adult
Eels of the Mediterranean and Northern Europe, that no
racial or specic dierence existed among all the European
Eels, whether from the Adriatic or Finland.
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conclixded that—all
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into the Atlantic When their time. comes to spawn.
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maSS.'-migration on a SCalep1‘eviously unsuspected and quite
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other sh. ;None return andfew of;the
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By:-a - series of brilliant obserVations‘ : and , deduc‘tions