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Hous seeds sent to them by the Marmion — and that the Society's 

 "Papers and Proceedings" had been acknowledged by the British 

 Museum, the Eoyal Institution of London, the Australian Subscrip- 

 tion Library, &c. 



A note from Colonel Bolton, R.E,, \Vas read. 



The Secretary read a paper from D.A.C.G. Mitchell on Mimosa 

 bark, and the two following notes to Capt. Chalmers of Bagdad; 

 also from Dr. M'Keuzie of Kinellan, near Dingwall, Ross-shire, 

 Scotland, on the introduction of salmon into Tasmania. 



" Kinellan, bj/ Dingwall, 2nd July, 1841. 

 " Sir,— In Sir F.'s absence I hasten to reply to your favour of 28th ultimo, 

 " 1 could not supply you with young fry, because they would have to be 

 carted 80 miles to the steamer at Inverness; and if they survived this, I fear 

 ihey might, through neglect, die before the Queen of Scotland reached London. 

 If you choose to send down a person to take charge of them with a proper 

 vessel or two, I will supply you with a lot of fry. The expense will not be 

 serious by steamer from Hore's Wharf to Inverness on the 12th. I would 

 have a cart ready for him, to send him to, and bring him back from, the west 

 coast, where the fry are. But you must write me directly. Allow me to 

 suggest a better and simple plan, and I think one that cannot miscarry. We 

 take the roe and melt from a fresh-killed fish — say in September, — rub them 

 together, deposit the roe in a basket of fine gravel in a pool, and in March or 

 April the fry come out in swarms. Why should not you (or some one you 

 can recommend to me) take out a supply of roe thus prepared, plunged in 

 your tank ? I am perfectly certain, that if shipped in September or October, 

 and deposited in a river in Australia before March, 99 of the 100 grains of roe 

 will become salmon. Let me hear from you.— Yours truly, 



"J. Mackenzie, M.D.' 

 " Captain Chalmers." 



" Kinellan, by Dingwall, 12th July, 1841. 



" Dear Sir, — I fear you will hardly get a roe and melt so far advanced by 

 1st August as to be depended on for impregnation. But by consulting some 

 of the Billingsgate folks you may perhaps succeed ; at all events it is worth 

 trying, as the cost will be almost nothing. A common basket, with cover, 

 filled with gravel and roe impregnated, and sunk in your tank, will require no 

 more trouble till you land in Australia, when the basket can be put into a pail 

 and carried to any stream where you wish to try if the thing is to succeed. 



" Next year (D. V.) you can have some fry sent south to you in better time 

 if you like; pr if you will give me the address of some careful confidential 

 friend, I will send him south two baskets, containing impregnated roe, say in 

 September; one basket to be sunk in water in England to produce live fish 



