BY P. S. SEAGEE. 9 



can easily be watched to ascertain if they are coming to life. 

 If they don't hatch before the arrival it will he a decidedbj safe 

 ivay of transporting them." Mr. Youl sent the letter to 

 Tasmania with an endorsement : " Eequested Mr. B. to have 

 made for me an apparatus such as he describes to hold from 

 one to two hundred ova. I will feed them with ice-water 

 from the melted ice drawn from ice-house." 



This letter was written on 24th December, 1861, and the 

 Beautiful Star sailed on .5th March, 3862, with a box packed 

 almost exactly as per Mr. Brady's sketch, but without the water 

 tank. Mr Youl, writing some years afterwards, 26th March, 

 1867, thus refers to Mr. Brady's value to him at the time. 

 " So important did I think Mr. Brady's instructions that I 

 paid three visits to Dublin to learn all I could on the subject, 

 and it was there I consolidated all I had read and j^reviously 

 seen on the subject." It affords me the greatest pleasure in. 

 stating my belief that Sir Thomas Brady's advice had much 

 to do with the experimental box placed in the Beautiful Star 

 and also to place on record the fact that, from the date of 

 his letter, thenceforward to the present time, Sir T. Brady 

 has worked zealously, heartily, and gratuitously with Mr. 

 Youl and others, in relation tu all or nearly all the shipments 

 of ova to this colony, and that his interest in the acclimati- 

 sation of salmon in these Southern waters has never flagged, 

 but has now culminated in the most successful shipment of 

 salmon ova ever made. In recording this tribute to Sir 

 Thomas Brady let it be well understood that I do not in any 

 way ignore the self-denying work of our good friend, Mr. J. 

 A. Youl, C.M.G., whose value in this cause I so well know, 

 and whose work can never be forgotten by those acquainted 

 with the history of salmon acclimatisation in the Australiaa 

 colonies and New Zealand. I feel sure that should Mr. Youl 

 read this paper, he will be pleased to think that the services 

 of his coadjutor, Sir Thomas Brady, ai*e appreciated so well 

 by the colonists of Mr. Youl's former home, who have so 

 many times admitted their indebtedness to himself in the 

 same direction. 



The experience gained in the Beautiful Star experiment 

 was a matter of much consideration by the Commissioners 

 and Mr. Ramsbottom, who were equally anxious that tlie 

 method of packing ovaiu mossand iceshould beja'acticallyand 

 thoroughly tested. The Commissioners forwarded a report to 

 His Excellency the Governor, T. Gore Browne, on 1st September, 

 1862 (Parliamentary Paper, No. 82, 1862), in winch they 

 recommended the immediate return to England of Mr. 

 Ramsbottom to arrange another experiment, and " during the 

 approaching winter Mr. K. would be able — first to put to the 

 test of further experiment the preservation of the ova iu 



