APPENDIX. 233 



I understand from Mr. Youl that R. Cameron, 

 Esq., who sends cargoes of ice from New York to 

 Melbourne, for commercial purposes, has offered to 

 bury the boxes of salmon ova among the blocks of 

 ice in his ships. There are plenty of salmon ova 

 to be obtained near Quebec, and Mr. Nettle, 

 Superintendent of Fisheries at Quebec, has offered 

 to procure and pack them for the experiment. 



On the 13th of May Mr. Youl, Mr. E. Wilson, 

 and myself examined some ova that had been 120 

 days in the ice. Though some were dead, the greater 

 part were alive, and are now placed in hatching 

 boxes. The result cannot be known before this 

 book is published, but the appearance of the ova 

 promises well. 



REPORT BY M. COUMES ON THE FISHERIES OF 

 FRANCE. 



Page 190. 



The valuable report of the government engineer- 

 in-chief of the works of the Rhine, M. Coumes, 

 contains an account of the system of artificial 

 propagation, carried on by the French Government 

 successfully for a period of ten years. The report 

 forms a book of 143 pages, from which the follow- 

 ing information has been collected. 



The French Government has been engaged in 

 discovering and maturing the utility of piscicul- 

 ture ; and a report was made in 1850, showing the 

 advantages to be derived from artificial propaga- 

 tion, previously to which experiments had been 

 made at the College of France. M. Coste then 



