EXPORTATION OF FISHES AND HATCHING APPARATUS. 967 



There is one point to which I should like to draw your attention and 

 that is the great desirability of the consignment being forwarded as 

 early in the season as possible. Our summer commences in December, 

 and the hatching of the ova would, of course, be attended with a smaller 

 amount of risk, if it could be performed before the temperature of the 

 water is materially raised by the summer heat. If the ovacould be dis- 

 patched in September we should then have time to have our hatching 

 completed before the commencement of the hot weather. 



Messrs. Cross & Co. will reimburse you for the expenditure you may 

 incur on this account. 



I remain, dear sir, yours obediently, 



T. F. CHEESEMAN, 

 Secretary AucTcland Acclimatization Society. 

 LiviNasTON Stone, Esq., 



United States Fish Commission, California. 



[Telegram.*] 



New York, June 17, 187G. 

 American Fisheries Commissioners will deliver packed at San Fran- 

 cisco, half million salmon ova in November, and quarter million white- 

 fish ova, for lakes, in February, for within four hundred pounds. Sug- 

 gest vote to supplement societies. Success certain. 



JAMES HECTOR. 

 Sir Julius Vogel, 



Welli7igfon, Neic Zealand. 



United States Governjient Building, 



Centennial Grounds, 

 West Philadelphia, Pa., June 21, 1876. 

 Dear Doctor : I think I can, without difficulty, carry out your prom- 

 ise to Sir Julius Vogel in regard to the fish eggs, by delivering in San 

 Francisco, to any agent of the colony, properly packed for shipment, a 

 half of a million of salmon eggs in November, and a quarter of a million 

 of whitefish eggs later in the year, at a cost not exceeding £400 sterling.f 

 I have, &c., 



SPENCER F. BAIRD. 

 Dr. James Hector, 



Commissioner from New Zealand, Centennial, Philadelphia. 



*A considerable portion of the following correspondence was published as an official 

 document by the Government of New Zealand : " H. — 14. 1877. New Zealand. In- 

 troduction of California Salmon (papers relative to the,. Presented to both Houses 

 of the General Assembly by command of His Excellency." 



tThis estimate was supposed to represent the increased cost merely of obtaining au 

 extra supply of eggs, no intention of making any profit being entertained. 



