46 THE ACCLIMATISATION 



Otago, New Zealand, in January, 1868, with 

 a total of 150,000 salmon and brown trout 

 ova under the charge of Mr. Dawbin ; but 

 the passage was long, ice formed in the 

 hatching - troughs on the Molyneux and 

 nipped the young fry to death at the mo- 

 ment of its extrusion, consequently, not 

 one trout was produced, and only five hun- 

 dred salmon, which were turned into the 

 river in November, 1869. The Mindora 

 shipment at the end of the year fared no 

 better, for the 110,000 salmon and 500 

 salmon-trout eggs sent out had been about 

 135 days from the parent fish before they 

 were placed in the water, so long had the 

 ship been at sea, and all perished. There 

 are one or two features of interest in con- 

 nection with this. A Hving snail, a worm, 

 and a wasp were found among the moss, and 

 " acclimatised; " two of a number of oysters 

 sent lived, and were placed on a bank in 

 Portobello Harbour; some gudgeon and carp 

 for the colony died before they reached the 

 tropics, and a few tench, which were healthy 

 and likely to Hve, were thrown overboard by 



