TRANSMISSION OF SALMON EGGS TO AUSTRALIA, ETC. 849 



suit thanks are due to Professor Spencer Baird, chief of the Fish Com- 

 mission of the United States, and to Mr. Livingstone Stone, the com- 

 missioner for the Pacific States, who bestowed the greatest pains in 

 packing the consignment for shipment. 



Eohert Houghton to S. F. Baird.. 



San Francisco, September 11, 1878. 



Dear Sir : I have just received a letter from the New Zealand Gov- 

 ernment, in reply to a communication from me, in which they state that 

 they will take one million whitefish ova on the terms stated by Mr. 

 Clark, namely, 60 cents per 1,000 f. o. b. at San Francisco, and that Mr. 

 Clark undertakes personally to superintend the shipment at that port, 

 provided his actual expenses across the continent are defrayed jointly 

 by the State fish commissioners of California and Nevada and New 

 Zealand. In my letter to the government, however, I inclosed express 

 charges which they appear to have overlooked in their letter to me, but 

 this item should be included in the bUl by Mr. Clark, to whom I send a 

 copy of the letter. 



I have forwarded your note of acknowledgment of remittance from 

 the colony. '' 



I am, dear sir, very truly yours, 



EOBT. HOUGHTON. 



Prof. Spencer F. Baird, &c. 



8. a Farr to S. F. Baird. 



Canterbury Acclimatization Society, 



Ghristchurchj September 13, 1878. 

 The Hon. Spencer F. Baird, 



United States Commissioner Fish and Fisheries^ Washington : 

 Dear Sir : We are very anxious to introduce into Canterbury some 

 of the most useful game and insectivorous birds from America, and it 

 was resolved at the last meeting of council that I should communicate 

 with you upon the subject, and feeling assured that you will help us in 

 the matter I take the liberty of asking you to kindly inform us which 

 are the best, with something of their habits, best season for i^rocuring 

 them, and probable cost delivered on steamer at San Francisco. I am 

 convinced this will be an intrusion upon your valuable and much occu- 

 pied time, which I trust you will pardon. 



I am also directed to inquire if you could secure for us in the season 

 100,000 ova of the silver trout % K so, at what cost delivered on board 

 steamer at 'Frisco. 

 You will, I have no doubt, be pleased to hear that the salmon are doing 

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