8 Salmon at the Antipodes. 



ment of Germany, into whose possession the 

 establishment has fallen. 



But the greatest triumph of pisciculture is 

 the transfer and acclimatization of the salmon 

 and trout, from the northern to the southern 

 hemisphere, through the heat of the tropics. 

 This has now been successfully accomplished 

 by the aid of ice and steam ; the one to keep 

 down the temperature, and thereby delay the 

 hatching process, and the other to shorten 

 the time required for transit. 



In the United States of America also, great 

 things have been done in fish culture by 

 Livingston Stone, Seth Green, Norris, Ains- 

 worth, and others, and several large establish- 

 ments exist for fish cultivation. A fish 

 commission has been appointed by the 

 Government, of which the Hon. Spencer F. 

 Baird is president, and, with a liberality and 

 generosity which does infinite credit to the 

 Great Republic, they freely supply ova of the 

 salmon, trout, and coregonus, or whitefish, 

 not only for their own rivers, but also — in 

 hundreds of thousands — to stock the waters of 

 Australia and New Zealand. The efforts of 

 the Commission have, in the States, resulted 



