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success ; were such difficulties more widely known tlie great 

 value of such work would be more highly appreciated. Sir 

 Thomas has received a hearty welcome and I trust he will 

 carry away with him from our colony the most pleasing 

 recollections of his visit, and live long to learn of the success 

 attending his recent labours and the establishment of a 

 valuable salmon industry in the colony. 



Before closing this history I must draw attention to the 

 important fact that although large sums of money have been 

 expended by this colony in the work of salmon acclimatisa- 

 tion, great assistance was rendered at various times by other 

 members of the Australasian group. The following sums of 

 money having been contributed, d£995 by the Government of 

 Victoria, .£200 by the Acclimatisation Society of Victoria, 

 j6300 by the Provincial Government of Canterbury, New 

 Zealand, £200 by the Provincial Government of Southland, 

 New Zealand, and =£150 by the Provincial Government of 

 Otago, New Zealand. The Victorian Government also on two 

 occasions generously gave the use of their sloop Victoria to 

 convey ova from Hobson's Bay to the Derwent. 



I regret that I do not feel myself competent to enter 

 scientifically into the result in relation to the efforts made to 

 acclimatise salmonidce in Tasmanian waters, biit in this 

 respect I am somewhat relieved by my friend, Mr. R. M. 

 Johnston, who has prepared an exhaustive paper dealing with 

 the matter from several standpoints. I can, however, claim 

 that success has been secured in the thorough and unques- 

 tioned establishment of salmon trout and brown trout, both 

 of which species are now abundant. The establishment of 

 the true salmon, however, is still to some extent a matter of 

 uncertainty. It must, however, be borne in mind that more 

 than one specimen submitted for scientific examination to 

 Dr. Gunther and others have been pronounced S. solar, and 

 that Sir Thomas Brady has publicly stated his belief that 

 specimens shown to him are of the same S2:»ecies. In speaking 

 of them commercially, Sir Thomas states that such specimens 

 in a salmon producing country would be accepted as salmon 

 without a doubt. This being so, I may almost claim that 

 the establishment of S. salar is an accomplished fact, and 

 express my earnest hope that the grand result attending Sir 

 Thomas Brady's shipment per Kaikoura will be the means 

 of so establishing the species as to admit of no doubt in the 

 future. The question of a change of character to some extent 

 in S. sdhir by a new environment is so ably dealt with by 

 Mr. R. M. Johnston in his " General and critical observations 

 on the fishes of Tasmania," that I may be pardoned for con- 

 cluding my short history of the subject by quoting the 

 following extract from that work : — 



