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boxes, with the remark that he did not think 

 they were worth taking away. I had them 

 placed in a larger box with ice above them, 

 and took them direct to the ice-works, where 

 I opened them in the ice-room, at a tempera- 

 ture of 32 deg. The boxes were differently 

 packed. One, with a Y on it, was packed by 

 Mr. J. A. Youl, and had, in addition to the moss, 

 a layer of charcoal at the bottom ; the other 

 two had been packed by Mr. Frank Buckland. 

 I picked out the ova that appeared healthy, and 

 counted the whole of the ova in these two 

 boxes, and found that only 270 ova remained 

 showing any signs of vitality, out of a total of 

 about 1500. On the other box being opened I 

 was delighted to find the ova bright, trans- 

 parent, and of a fine pink colour. I could 

 only find four dead ova, and did not further 

 disturb the box. These ova were much larger, 

 approaching in this respect to the Californian 

 ova, and had evidently been taken at the right 

 time from a " ripe " fish in the best condition. 

 The other two boxes contained smaller-sized 

 ova, of a paler colour and more irregular in 

 form, being in many instances oval-shaped, 

 and wanting in the bright look of healthy ova. 



