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



of the Fish Commission of the Lower Seine, Gonzerville, France, one case 

 containing 25.000 eggs of the landlocked salmon, per steamer La Ere- 

 tagne. These, eggs came some days before from Grand Lake Stream, 

 Maine, and were in good condition for the voyage. No word has been 

 received from them, but from the appended letter of Mr. Louis Do 

 Bibian, agent General Transatlantic Company, dated New York, April 

 2, 18S7, and relating to their care on shipboard, there is every reason 

 to believe they will get to their destination in safety : 



" Your telegram of 31st March and letter of April 1 at hand. The 

 case reached me this morning and goes on La Bretagne, sailing to-day, 

 in care of an officer whom 1 have given instructions in reference to 

 keeping the box cool and adding ice thereto. I have sent the case to 

 our agent's care in Havre and written him to reship by express on ar 

 rival there." 



RECEIVED FROM SCOTLAND. 



(A) Loch-leven trout (Salmo levinensis).— On January 14, 1887, 

 there were received from Sir James Gibson Maitland, Bart., proprietor 

 of the Ilowietoun Fishery, Stirling, Scotland, three cases of eggs of. the 

 Loch-leven trout, per steam-ship Bothnia. The cases contained J 0,000 

 each, or 48,000 in all. The eggs on the upper trays were in good con- 

 dition, but the lower trays in all the boxes contained only dead eggs, 

 owing to the wet condition of the moss and a rise in the temperature. 

 The eggs were all clean and entirely free from fungus, and had they 

 been iced on the ship and the temperature kept down they would have 

 arrived in splendid condition, for those which contained dead embryos 

 had not been dead long and merely showed the white line in the egg. 

 We took out 20,300 dead ones, and the loss since that time has been 

 trifling. The fry from the good eggs are as strong and healthy as any 

 tish ever hatched here. The packing at Howietoun is' most excellently 

 done. 



RECEIVED FROM GERMANY. 



(A) Saibling (Salvelinus salvelinus). — On February 9, 1887, there 

 were received from Her]' Max von dem Borne, proprietor of the fish- 

 cultural establishment at Berneuchen, one case containing 20,000 Saib- 

 ling eggs, from which there were taken 8,000 dead. In reply to an 

 order to send one-fourth of the eggs to Col. E. B. Hodge, commissioner 

 of fisheries of New Hampshire, 3,000 were repacked and shipped to the 

 hatchery at Plymouth, N H. He reported their arrival in good condi- 

 tion. On March 9 another case of .Saibling eggs was received from 

 Herr von dem Borne, containing 20,000, of which 5,500 were dead. 

 Through a misunderstanding these were mixed with an installment of 

 brown trout eggs received the same day from Germany, and the 14,500 

 good eggs were distributed with the brown trout to the hatcheries ;it 

 Tony, Pa.; Wytbeville, Va. ; Isorthville, Mich.; and Cold Spring 

 Harbor, N. Y. 



