APPENDIX. 229 



" Salmon Eggs taken from the Wells of the Wenham 

 Lake Ice Company, after being Deposited in the 

 Ice Fifty-nine Days. 



" March 25. — Forty-five of tlie eggs I put in tlie 

 hatching apparatus two hours after they were taken 

 from the wells, the temperature of the water 56°. 



" March 26. — Ten were turned quite white, and 

 dead, of course, although at the time they were 

 taken from the box they looked alive. 



" March 27. — Five more were dead. 



"March 29. — Two dead. The remaining twenty- 

 eight I believe to be doing well, as they look quite 

 clear and healthy. 



*' The remainder of the eggs, twenty-eight in num- 

 ber, I left in the box until next morning (March 

 26). I put them in a separate box, the tempera- 

 ture of the water being 48°. Next day eight were 

 dead. 



" March 31. — Two more dead. The remainder are 

 now all right. Mr. Youl and Mr. Buckland gave 

 me six eggs which had been in the refrigerator at a 

 temperature of 34°, fifty-nine days ; when I got to 

 the gardens, one was dead ; the others, this day, 

 April 2, are all well. — James Tennant. 



" Fish House, Zoological Gardens, Eegent's Park, 



April 4." 



On the 25th of April, I gave the following 

 report : — 



" Sir, — Your readers will, I am sure, be as 

 much pleased as Mr. Youl, myself, and other 

 gentlemen interested in these experiments are, at 

 the following report of how the eggs have behaved 



