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*Conducted in water from the Chesapeake Bay, the experi- 

 ments, though imperfect, would indicate that this variety of 

 Ssilmon {Salmo quinnat) is capable of sustaining life under 

 circumstances fatal to the Eastern variety, and indicate also 

 that their establishment in the tidal rivers above referred to, 

 may be possible. We are inclined to believe that in future 

 we will be able to transport the young Salmon, in distributing 

 them, much easier, with much greater safety, and without ne- 

 cessity of a change of water, to distant localities by using sea 

 water ; and on their return to fresh water, that they will re- 

 sume the condition and mode of life which they followed pre- 

 vious to the change from fresh to salt water. 



On the 3d of October I received 10 packages, containing 

 each two boxes, each box marked as containing 50,000 

 eggs, making in all 1,000,000. The crates were kept in an 

 ice house, surrounded by ice, until the 7th of October. They 

 having arrived sooner than expected, the Hatching House 

 was not in order for their reception. On the 7th the unpack- 

 ing was commenced, and completed on the 12th of October, 

 when all the eggs were laid down in the hatching apparatus. 

 The eggs were well packed and in fine condition, compara- 

 tively few having died on the journey, considering the length 

 of time occupied in their transportation from the McCloud 

 river, and the distance traveled. 



Up to the night of the 12th of October the loss in eggs 

 was 28,000. I think there were somewhat over 1,000,000, and 

 it is the impression of the men who handled the eggs that 



* Since the above has been iu press, I have through the courtesy of Mr. 

 W. C. Coup, proprietor of the New York Aquarium, been able to try the 

 effect on the young Salmon, of their introduction into the Salter water of 

 the sea. The water -which eupplies the tanks which contain his beautiful 

 and instructive collection of salt water fishes, &c., is brought from the sea, 

 several miles below Sandy Hook. I immersed a number of young Salmon 

 in this water in one of his tanks, and found them all dead at the end of six 

 hours. This experiment according with that related in " Harvest of the 

 Sea," above quoted. 



