810 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. [2] 



I append the following from letter of Mr. Busse, agent of the Fischerei 

 Vercin, at Geestenuinde, who received all the eggs from the ships. It 

 includes all but the last shipment of laud-locked salmou. The letter is 

 dated Geestemnnde, 24th of February, 1883 : 



" In due reply to your very esteemed favor of the 5th instant, I beg 

 leave to inform you that all the fish eggs you sent through my hands 

 to me for the Deutsche Fischerei Vereiu, Berlin, have arrived here in a 

 proper and sound condition. Only the lake trout did not come in well, 

 for most of them had slipped out before reaching me. As to the eggs 

 Mr. Ebrecht received from you, I am sorry that I cannot tell you any- 

 thing about them, as I have not seen the lot. No doubt they will have 

 been in the same good condition." 



FRANCE. 



A. Brook trout. — February 2, 1883, received 20,000 eggs of brook 

 trout from F. N. Clark, Northville, Mich., and repacked and shipped 

 them to the Soci6t(5 d'Acclimatation, Paris, care M. Eaveret Wattel, 

 secretary, by the steamer St. Laurent of the General Transatlantic 

 Company, on February 6. They arrived in good order in France. 



B. Lake trout. — January 2, 1883, received from Mr. Clark 50,000 

 lake-trout eggs, which I repacked and sent on the steamer Labrador, of 

 the General Transatlantic Company, to the Soci6t6 d'Acclimatation, 

 Paris, January 3. They arrived in France in good condition. 



C. Whitefish. — December 29, 1882, received 200,000 whitefish eggs 

 from Mr. Clark, and repacked and shipped them to the Society d'Accli- 

 matation, Paris, January 3, 1883, by steamer Labrador, of the General 

 Transatlantic Company. They arrived in France in good condition. 



D. Land-locked salmon. — March 3, 1883, received from Mr. Atkins 

 15,000 eggs of the laud-locked salmon, and repacked and shipped them 

 to the Soci6t6 d'Acclimatation, Paris, by steamer Canada, of the Gen- 

 eral Transatlantic Company, on March 7. In this connection I would 

 refer to the following, from letters dated Paris, February 8, March 3, 

 and March 31 : 



" I have received in perfect condition the eggs of Salmo namaycusli 

 and Goregonus albus that you have had the kindness to forward to our 

 society, and I trust there will be a good result." 



" We have received in most splendid condition the trout eggs (;S^. 

 fontinalis) that you have had the kindness to forward us, from Professor 

 Baird. They were packed up in so perfect condition that not one had 

 been lost, and I consider it as a certainty that they will give a lively 

 fry. So it is a new success." 



To Professor Baird he writes : 



'' 1 have receivvid in perfect condition the ova of land-locked salmon 

 forwarded to our society, under your kind direction, by Mr. Mather. 

 They were really splendid as for the preservation, and not one had 



