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of the late experiment ? and if the Californian 

 salmon -succeeds in Victorian rivers, oya can 

 be obtained to stock the Murray, Murrum- 

 bidgee and Goulburn. To this argument I 

 would reply that life is too short, the time to 

 wait is too long, and that even should the 

 Californian salmon prove as successful as we 

 could expect it to be, ova could not be ob- 

 tained easier, or at less cost, than they now 

 can from California. The fact of this fish 

 having been so very successfully introduced 

 is an assurance that the money it is proposed 

 to expend in the undertaking would not be 

 thrown away. 



In a recent number of Nature, a valuable 

 scientific publication, Mr. George Francis, in 

 a paper dated Adelaide, May 11th, 1878, 

 stated that the river Murray had that season 

 been very low, and the water unusually 

 warm. The stream running into Lake Alex- 

 andrina was very slight, the temperature of 

 the water being 74 deg. The surface of the 

 lake on calm days rose to 76 deg., and the 

 bottom temperature was 73 deg. In a stiff 

 breeze the water stood at 72 deg. As these 

 temperatures are lower than those which are 



