462 ANNUAL KECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



the natives in fishing-boats, and by small vessels from Den- 

 mark, the object being especially the securing of the livers, no 

 account beinc: made of the rest of the animal. Gloucester 

 Telegraph, August 13, 1873. 



AKKIVAL OF SALMON EGGS IN NEW ZEALAND. 



We chronicled some months ago the transmission to New 

 Zealand, by the ship Oheron, of a cargo of salmon eggs, pack- 

 ed in ice, the vessel leaving London on the 20th of January, 

 1873. The Oheron arrived at Otago, in New Zealand, on the 

 2d of May, and on opening the boxes a large number of the 

 eggs were found to be dead. Of the 100,000, however, about 

 15,000 to 20,000 appeared to be alive, and it was hoped that 

 at least six to ten thousand would be hatched out. These 

 Avere sent to a hatching establishment near Christchurch and 

 placed in the boxes. 



The expense of this experiment amounted to about $4000. 

 At the time of the shipment some eggs of the same lot were 

 placed in an ice-house belonging to the Wenham Lake Com- 

 pany, and when unpacked on the 5th of May were found to 

 contain living embryos, after having been kept in ice for 112 

 days. 



It is hoped that the salmon experiment in New Zealand 

 will meet with the same success as that of the introduction 

 of trout eggs into the same country, the proceeds of which 

 have been taken in the form of fish weighing in some in- 

 stances five pounds. 



When the boxes containing the salmon eggs were opened, 

 great differences were found among them as to the health of 

 the contents ; in some the percentage of deaths being very 

 great, while in others it was much less. The greatest loss 

 was in boxes packed with coarse brown moss, such as was 

 taken from woods ; the fresher and more green and soft moss, 

 such as grows on the boles of trees, seeming to be very much 

 more favorable for the preservation of the eggs. In one case 

 only sixteen living eggs were obtained from a lot of three 

 boxes. 2 A, August 2, 1873, 81. 



SHAD IN THE ALLEGHANY KIVER. 



According to the Rochester Z>a% Union of September 10, 

 Mr. Seth Green had received from Tidiot, a branch of the 



