TO UNPACK THE EGGS. 177 



have re-packed a box, or rather boxes, which 

 those who call at " The Field " office can see 

 and examine. 



Tell your friend directly he receives the 

 eggs to pick the moss out carefully with a 

 pair of forceps, and to place the eggs imme- 

 diately into the apparatus, which should be 

 all ready to receive them. If it be possible, 

 I advise that the eggs, still packed in the 

 bottles, should be "placed upright" in the 

 boxes for a couple of hours, the water not by 

 any means allowed to get into them. The 

 eggs will thus gradually assume the tempera- 

 ture of the water in which it is hoped they 

 will hatch out. A sudden change from the 

 hot box to the cold water is not good for 

 the eggs. All the moss must be cleaned off 

 the eggs when placed in the boxes; they 



