86 Salmon at the Antipodes. 



— even if in a waterproof dress, is no easy or 

 pleasant task, and requires an amount of 

 enthusiasm in the cause of acclimatization, 

 and energy in carrying out the undertaking, 

 that few men possess. To Mr. J. A. Youl, 

 C.M.Gr., and to Mr. Buckland, the colonies 

 owe a debt of gratitude for their exertions in 

 the cause. To Mr. Youl is, I believe, due the 

 honour of being the first to make the discovery 

 that the eggs of salmon and trout could be 

 kept alive in ice long enough to enable them 

 to reach the antipodes : and the first, and 

 many subsequent shipments of salmou ova 

 were collected and sent out by him, or under 

 his personal care and supervision. Mi. Youl 

 did not refrain, although his fingers were 

 numbed with cold, worn and bleeding by con- 

 tact with the sharp masses of ice, until his 

 task was accomplished. Both he and Mr. 

 Buckland have been unsparing in their labours 

 to achieve the desired object of stocking the 

 waters of Australasia with the king of fish. 

 After years of patient observation of facts, 

 leading up to a final result, and notwithstand- 

 ing hardships endured in collecting the eggs, 

 or in packing boxes of ova in ice, with the 



