Spawn
the or of fishes, the entrance to the Straits of Gibraltar, frogs, etc., from which, when fertilized and about 1,000 feet above the sea.
SPAULDING, FRANK an American educator, born at Dublin, N. H., in 1866. He was educated at Amherst College, the University of Berlin, the University of Leipzig, and the Sorbonne. Beginning with 1895 he successively superintendent of was schools at Ware, Mass., Passaic, N. J., Newton, Mass., Minneapolis, Minn., and Cleveland, Ohio. In 1920 he became professor of school administration and head of the department of education at the Graduate School, at Yale University.
He was a member of the General Education Board, of the Army Educational Commission, and of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Besides contributing many articles on educational subjects to magazines he wrote "The Individual Child and His Education" (1904); "Learning to Read, by the males, a new progeny arises that continues the species. In the oviparous fishes with distinct sexes the eggs are impregnated externally, and arrive at maturity without the aid of the mother .
The spawn being deposited by the female, the male then pours on it the impregnating fluid. In the ovoviviparous fishes sexual intercourse takes place, and the eggs are hatched in the uterus.
Fishes exhibit a great variety in regard to the number of their eggs. In the spawn of a codfish, for example, no fewer than 3,500,000 eggs have been found. In general, before spawning, fish forsake the deep water and approach the shore, and some fish leave the salt water and ascend the rivers before spawning, and then return again. See FISH CULTURE.