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there liberated, only 200 being lost en route. Two cans, of the capacity of 

 six gallons each, were used, and these put inside larger ones, the space 

 between filled with water, the temperature of which was kept low by ice. 

 Blood was used to feed the fish from the first. Describing the liberation of 

 these whitefish, Mr. Farr says, " looking after them for a few seconds, we 

 noticed that they took a spiral course to the depth of about eight inches, then 

 dived suddenly downwards, and were lost to sight in the deep azure water." 

 " The temperature of the water at the surface was 60°, and at 50 feet it 

 was 59°." Of other fish, I find that 'perch were obtained from Hobart 

 Town prior to 1877, but owing to their not thriving in the gardens, it was 

 determined to turn them out in the Heathcote river. Tench, also goldfish, 

 were obtained and reared ; 20 of the former and 26 of the latter being in 

 the society's possession in 1879. 



Otago Acclimatization Society. 

 This society, which was founded in January, 1864, devoted its efforts 

 for some years to procuring English insectivorous and song birds, wherein 

 great success was attained. But in 1868 it sent its manager, Mr. Clifford, 

 to Tasmania, who got from the Salmon Commissioners there, 800 ova of the 

 trout (Sahno fario) as mentioned in my paper on Brown Trout, read before 

 this Institute in July, 1878.* A subsequent lot of 1000 was obtained in the 

 following year from the same source, and both were very successfully 

 hatched at the society's ponds at Opoho, by or under the immediate care of 

 Mr. Clifford ; 720 of the former, and nearly all the latter, being hatched 

 out. In July, 1870, Mr. Clifford brought from Tasmania fully 1000 ova of 

 brown trout, and 140 ova of the sea-trout, and successfully hatched out 

 at the society's ponds every ovum. No such feat had ever before been 

 achieved in fish-culture, so far as I have read or seen. These young trout 

 formed the original stock, from which most of the streams in Otago may 

 now be said to be stocked in measure.* I should, however, mention here 

 that a previous lot of 400 ova brought from Tasmania for the Otago society, 

 in September, 1867, by Mr. Johnson, Curator to the Canterbury Acclima- 

 tization Society, proved to be all dead on arrival in Dunedin. The original 

 trout ova from England, brought successfully to Tasmania, were obtained 

 from the river Weycombe, Buckinghamshire, and the Wey and Itchen, 

 Hampshire. Our brown trout are descendants of these, but I have not 

 been able to trace the identity further, nor to find out more than that all 

 the ova from the above three English streams did not hatch out equally 

 well in Tasmania. 



* For a list of streams in which brown trout have been put, see paper " On Brown 

 Trout in Otago," " Trans. N.Z, Inst.," vol, xi., p. 208. But nearly every river and 

 stream has received some. 



