PEEFACE, 



The frequent demand, both at home and 

 in the Australasian colonies, for a series of 

 articles on the acclimatisation of the Sal- 

 monidcB at the Antipodes, which I contri- 

 buted to the Field Quarterly Magazine and 

 Review, The Country, and Chambers' Journal, 

 and which are now out of print, has deter- 

 mined me to republish the substance of them 

 with additions, forming a short but complete 

 history of this remarkable achievement, 

 fraught as it is with important economic 

 results for those colonies ; and with so 

 many points of scientific interest. 



