98 FISH HATCHING. 



vations at his green-house apparatus at 

 Hampton. 



Mr. Bartlett has informed me that he had 

 hatched salmon ova in the short space of 

 thirty days from the time of impregnation ; 

 and he has given me notes of observations 

 which he published at the time. Curiously 

 enough, Mr. Ponder has arrived at somewhat 

 similar results with trout ova at Hampton, 

 last year. 



This is the experience at Stormontfields as 

 regards temperature, as sent me by Mr. 

 Buist. 



" Of the 275,000 ova in our boxes, the whole 

 are now (March, 1863) quick and bursting into 

 life, a great many of them are already hatched, 

 and the others are very healthy, and the young 

 fish may clearly be seen in them, and are burst- 



