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.form of the young fish could be traced in 

 almost all of them. We may, then, safely 

 assume the correctness of Mr. Youl's 

 opinion, deduced from the trials in the ice 

 vaults, that the nearer the fish is to ex- 

 trusion from the egg, the more critical is its 

 state, and that a hundred days before im- 

 mersion in 'running water cannot be safely 

 exceeded. 



THE FIRST SALMON IN TASMANIA. 



Act the second was completed on the 4th 

 of May, 1864, when the first trout emerged 

 from the egg, and on the following day the 

 first salmon, which had ever yet swum in 

 the southern hemisphere, and by May 25th 

 there were two hundred healthy young 

 trout, and by June 8th "several thou- 

 sands," as the commissioners' report says, 

 of salmon sporting in their new home, en- 

 joying their rations of boiled liver morning 

 and evening, and affording a living testi- 

 mony to the perseverance and scientific 

 foresight of one who had laboured for 



