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Excerpt from Studies on the Reproduction and Artificial Propagation of Fresh-Water Mussels
The writers' personal attention has in the main been directed to a study of the conditions of reproduction in the group and the parasitism of the larva in their bearing upon the problem of artificial infection of fishes with glochidia, while such phases of the investigation as geographical distribution, systematic studies, and a number of special ecological problems have been in the hands of other investigators. At the recently established biological station of the Bureau of Fisheries at Fairport, Iowa, while construction was still in progress, the work of propagating some of the commercial species was inaugurated, and the excellent facilities of the station, which has been especially designed for the purpose, are now being utilized by members of the stafi in attacking fundamental problems of both a scientific and an economic nature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
