408 ANNUAL EECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



SALMON IN THE ANTIPODES. 



The actual existence of mature salmon at the antipodes, 

 from the eggs transported thither, is not fully proved, al- 

 though Mr. Youl is of the opinion that the evidence is clear 

 as to the success in New Zealand, as he publishes in the Lon- 

 don Field a paragraph from an Otago daily paper stating 

 that a large salmon had been taken in one of the northern 

 streams, its eyes having been picked out by a sea-gull. This 

 was captured by parties familiar with the Scottish salmon, 

 and who felt sure of its character. The fish wei2;hed about 

 forty pounds. 



Mr. Youl also publishes a letter received by the Acclima- 

 tization Society of Otago, which had accompanying it a pho- 

 tograph of a salmon-trout taken in Otago Harbor, weighing 

 ten pounds eight ounces, and measuring twenty-six inches in 

 length. It is an interesting fact in this connection that in 

 1870 there were one hundred and forty eggs of salmon-trout 

 brought from Tasmania, from which one hundred young fish 

 were liberated in the beginning of 1871, from a stream about 

 thirty miles north of Dunedin. "Within the last eighteen 

 months upward of a dozen sea-trout, weighing from two to five 

 pounds, have been taken, in addition to the one first referred 

 to, so that we have here at least fourteen fish out of one hun- 

 dred already captured, with a strong probability that a good 

 many more escaped the perils of infancy, and attained ma- 

 turity. This percentage of fourteen in a hundred is much 

 laro-er than fish-culturists have dared to claim as the result 

 of their efibrts, and if it be any thing like an average, it fur- 

 nishes a great encouragement to the efforts now in progress 

 in America and elsewhere to introduce and multiply useful 

 food fishes. 19 ^, February 19, 196. 



SALMON EGGS IN SOUTH AFRICA. 



Among the efforts to acclimatize the salmonidre in the 

 southern hemisphere may be mentioned the transmission of 

 eggs of the trout to South Africa. Mr. Campbell Jobson, 

 about Christmas, 1875, obtained from Frank Buckland some 

 eggs for the government of the Cape Colony, and succeeded 

 in transporting a large proportion in good condition to Cape 

 Town. Here they were placed in charge of Dr. Hidding, who 



