we handed the ATC, ene part of that introduction boing on botany,

one paxt Limnolosy and one part vortebrates.

Wa included all

of the other vericbratys included in the Lake except the ordinary
We did not do anything on those, because we did not have

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the time ov tho poopic.
Ve did a little wort, hovaver, on amphibians, roptiles,
mostly turtles, of which there is an abundance at White Oak Lake.
We aiso dic somo work on watexs fowl Which is being continued, ard

we Gid quite a bit on fish because that is what woe wont thore for

Somo of tho results I can give you, I think, are pretty
good evidonce that the vadietion accumulated to Which the fish
were exposed in White Oak Lake shoved thera wore harmful effects.
In the first place, from the best of our information which we
could get fron ethsr Tennessea Valley lakes, the fish grew at
@ rato of about 25 to 30 percent nore Slovly than these in the
surrounding lakes,
‘Furthermore, those specics of fish had a life span

of 30 to 40 percent, waich yas a shortor life,

We must keep in

mind that White O2k Lake was much more fertile than the other
lakes, so the fish vrobably should have grown faster although
‘thoy may not have lived longer, because there is sone questicn
as to whether a fast-living fish will live as long as a slov-.
living fish, and so on, and I bolioeve there is some truth in that.
By tho same token, fish that grow -- real fish -- get larse in

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