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New Zealand) declare Ms unqualified satis- 

 faction at the success of a method which he 

 had formerly looked upon as impracticable. 

 The experiments made at the Crystal 

 Palace were of considerable importance 

 in deciding the question whether the ova 

 could be retarded long enough to enable 

 them to arrive at the end of the voyage 

 unhatched. The young fish must break 

 from the investing membrane in water if 

 it is to survive, and no provision for this 

 could be adequately made, on the ship. 

 Hence its liberation must be suspended 

 until it could be placed in the waters of 

 the colony. Mr. Edward Wilson, president 

 of the Victorian Acclimatisation Society, 

 associated himself with Mr. Youl and some 

 influential colonists in raising a subscrip- 

 tion of about .£600 for a trial, which was to 

 be conducted solely by Mr. Youl, and this 

 was the beginning of a series of systematic 

 efforts. Mr. E. Eamsbottom collected 

 30,000 ova from the Dovey, and they were 

 shipped in the 8. Curling from Liverpool on 

 February 25, 1860. The plan of shipment 



