TEANSMISSION OF SALMON EGGS TO AUSTRALIA, ETC. 837 

 T. F. Cheeseman to S. F. Baird. 



Auckland Accleviatization Society, 



AucMand, December 17, 1877. 



Dear Sir : I forwarded a short note by last mail ackuowledging the 

 safe receptiou of tlie cousigumeut of salmon ova so liberally forwarded 

 by tlie United States Fisli Commission, and conveying our best thanks 

 for the same. I have now the pleasure of informing you that the ova 

 have turned out even better than those sent last year, the hatching hav- 

 ing been in every way successful. Our share of the cousignment was 

 divided into three portions ; the first, containing about 40,000 eggs, was 

 taken to the upper part of the Puniu Eiver, an affluent of the Waipa, 

 which is the princiijal tributary of the Waikato Eiver. It is estimated 

 that 38,000 healthy young fish have been hatched out in this locality. 

 Another lot of 50,000 was placed in the Northern Wairoa Kiver, and has 

 hatched out almost as well as the Puniu portion. The remaining 10,000 

 have been treated at our fish-house near Auckland, where we have now 

 shghtly over 9,000 healthy young fish. 



You will have doubtless received particulars from Dr. Hector respect- 

 ing the ova sent to the southern provinces. I beheve that the result 

 there is also very encouraging. 



I can now only again express our sense of the jjieep obligations under 

 which you have placed us, and beg to remain, 

 Yours, obediently, 



T. F. CHEESEMAN, 



Secretary. 

 Professor Baird, 



Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, Washington. 



J. C. Firth to 8. F. Baird. 



AuCEXAND, December 17, 1877. 

 Hon. Spencer F. Baird, 



Chief of the United States Fish Commission, Washington : 

 Dear Sir : I have great pleasure in informing you that, at the request 

 of the Government of New Zealand, I have successfully distributed 

 throughout this colony the 500,000 salmon ova so generously presented 

 by the United States Fish Commission to New Zealand. The boxes of 

 ova arrived at this port, thanks to the care of the gentleman in charge 

 of your establishment at the McCloud Eiver, in splendid condition. The 

 circumstance of the ova boxes being stripped from their crates in San 

 Francisco, to get them into the steamer's ice-house, renders it necessary 

 to ftrovide each ota box with chests properly insulated. All these, 

 together with some tons of ice I had in readiness, and by working 

 through the night on the arrival of the mail steamer, I had all safely 

 inclosed in the insulators, each provided with a simple arrangement for 



