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Excerpt from Burrowing Ability of Juvenile Clams The ability of young clams to move short distances about the surface of the flat by use of the foot is well known (kellogg The fact that a continuous large - scale redistribution of juvenile clams occurs during normal weather conditions was demonstrated by Smith After more than a year of field experiments, in which he recessed square-foot trays of clam less mud in the tidal flats for short periods in Newburyport, Mass., Smith reported that both the numbers and sizes of clams coming into a square foot area in a period of two weeks follows very closely the numbers and sizes in the open flats where they have had all season to collect. 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.
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