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



ENQLAND. 



On April 14 I received 3,000 eggs of the rainbow trout from Mr. F. 

 N. Clark, jSTortliville, Mich., and on the 18th repacked and shipped them 

 by steamer Assyrian Monarch to Edward Birbeck, esq., secretary of 

 the National Fish-Cultural Association, London. The agents of the 

 Monarch line informed me that the eggs would be placed in the beef- 

 room (this line has chill-rooms, and carries great quantities of dressed 

 beef to England), and the temperature of this room was said to be kept 

 between 33° and 38° F. As the beef is not permitted to freeze, I 

 thought this arrangement the very best that could be made, but a letter 

 from Mr. Birbeck informs me that the eggs arrived frozen and dead. 



FRANCE. 



At the same time of receiving the above-mentioned eggs I received 

 3,000 eggs of the rainbow trout from Mr. Clark, and on April 15 shipped 

 them to C. Raveret-Wattel, secretary of the Soci6t^ d'Acclimatatiou, 

 Paris, by the steamer Normandie of the General Transatlantic Company. 

 A letter from Mr. Eaveret-Wattel states that the eggs arrived in most 

 excellent condition. 



