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This very generous offer on behalf of the New 

 Zealand Government I at once determined to 

 accept, although, as I had joined with them in 

 half the cost of a previous shipment by the 

 Durham, I expected that my present request 

 would have been granted on the same arrange- 

 ment of my paying a proportionate part of 

 the cost of the shipment. On the arrival of 

 the Chimborazo, I found that the boxes con- 

 taining the ova were carefully packed in the 

 icehouse beneath the ice, and that between 

 two and three feet of ice still remained over 

 them. The total number of ova shipped was 

 about 50,000, and they were packed in 55 

 boxes. There was also a box of the ova of 

 the common trout. On the ice being removed 

 the boxes were handed up, and the lids of 

 some of them having been damaged, Mr. 

 Howard, who came over from New Zealand 

 to take charge of the ova on their tranship- 

 ment into the Alhambra, examined the eggs 

 by lifting up the moss covering them, and it 

 was at once evident that the great bulk of 

 those in four of the boxes so examined had 

 perished, as very few healthy ova could be 

 seen. He handed over to me three other 



