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any eggs which may perish or remain unim- 

 pregnated. It is my opinion that nntil this 

 plan be adopted, no future shipments of 

 English salmon ova can be sent, with any 

 hope of results being obtained that will be 

 anything like satisfactory. The voyage is 

 now so much shortened by the great speed of 

 the new line of fast steamers, that there is no 

 danger of the ova hatching out on the voyage, 

 even if the incubation be advanced to the 

 stage when the half of the time required has 

 elapsed. 



The damage done to the broken boxes did not 

 injure the ova ; one of these boxes, also, had a 

 Y on it, and the ova in it were no better than 

 those in the others, showing that the differ- 

 ence was more in the ova than in the packing. 



On account of the high temperature of the 

 waters at the time, I thought it better to leave 

 the boxes of ova in the icehouse for two or 

 three weeks — where the process of incubation 

 would proceed slowly — until the heat of 

 summer was over, when they were taken to 

 Ercildoune and placed in the hatching-boxes 

 there. 



On examination of the ova, it was found 



