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" These results, therefore, especially the last, are 

 most encouraging, and we fully hope that next 

 season the actual experiment of sending the eggs 

 to Australia, in a fast-saihng ship, packed in ice, 

 according to the experience now gained, Tvall be 

 attempted. " F. T. Bijckland/' 



SALMON OVA IN ICE. 



"Sir, — Will you be pleased to insert the inclosed 

 letter received by me this morning ? Mr. Hams- 

 bottom, the writer, is the person whom I sent out 

 in charge of the experiment in the * Beautiful 

 Star,' and has been sent home by the government of 

 Tasmania to learn all he can previous to going out 

 in charge of another attempt to be made next year 

 to introduce salmon to the rivers of that colony. 



"The salmon ova to which he alludes were taken 

 from a pair of fish by his father, and brought up 

 to London five days afterwards, and placed by me 

 in wet moss inclosed in a small box, and then 

 deposited in the ice-vaults of the Wenham Lake 

 Ice Compan}^, from which they were taken after 

 being buried ninety days. The result of this 

 experiment is of the most interesting character. 

 Notice : the ova were taken at Clitheroe, brought 

 up to London, exposed to railway and cab travel- 

 ling, then put in ice for ninety days at a tempera- 

 ture never exceeding 32°; taken out eg^ by e^^y 

 placed in a bottle of water, taken back to Clitheroe, 

 and now in a fair way (the most of them) to 

 become young fish, if not 301b. salmon. 



" James A. Youl. 



" Waratah House, Clapliam Park, April 22." 



