980 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND IISHERIES. 



[Inclosure in last letter.] 



United States Government Building, 



Centennial Grounds, 

 West Philadelphia, Pa., October 20, 1876. 

 Dear Sir : la reply to your letter of the 10th of October, I beg to 

 express my gratification at hearing the salmon eggs were duly received, 

 and would be shortly forwarded by the Zealandia. I am not entirely 

 satisfied as to the propriety of inclosing them in an airtight ice-house, 

 as they will require a certain amount of oxygen for their proper devel- 

 opment. 



I do not propose to make any charge for supplying the eggs for the 

 present shipment, merely reclaiming the cost of packing at the station, 

 and transportation to San Francisco. Possibly, in any additional con- 

 tributions of magnitude, I may feel bound to assess a portion of the ac- 

 tual expenses. The whitefish are provided for, and I hope will be fur- 

 nished Ht the proper time. May I ask you to remind me of this by letter, 

 to reach me about the 1st of January ? 

 I have, &c., 



SPENCER F. BAIPtD. 

 Egbert J. Creighton, Esq., 



San Francisco, Cal. 



Auckland Acclimatization Society, 



Auckland, November 17, 187G. 



Sir : I am directed by the Council of the Auckland Acclimatization So- 

 ciety to convey to you their very hearty thanks for the consignment of 

 California salmon ova forwarded to us under your directions by Mr. 

 Livingston Stone, and which was duly received by the last mail-steamer. 

 You will be glad to hear that the consignment arrived in excellent 

 condition, and has been hatched with an unusually small percentage of 

 loss. The young fish are now doing well, so that we have every reason 

 to hope that your kind and liberal action in this matter will be the 

 means of enabling us to establish in our rivers a fish of great economic 

 value, and thus confer a benefit of lasting value on the whole community. 

 I inclose an extract from the Dailj' Southern Cross newspaper, pub- 

 lished in this city, that may perhaps interest you ; and again expressing 

 my sense of the obligations under which you may have laid this society, 

 I beg to subscribe myself. 



Yours, most obediently, 



T. F. CHEESEMAN,- 



Secretary. 

 Prof. Spencer F. Baird, 



Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, Washington, U. S. 



