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above 60°. To take salmon ova from the 

 ice-house at a temperature of about 35° and 

 transfer them suddenly to one of 60° would 

 have the same e£fect as plunging them into 

 boiling water ! It was necessary that the 

 vessel should start about the middle of 

 January, and that she should be not more 

 than ninety-five days on the passage, which 

 would bring the ova into colonial waters in 

 the latter half of April. And it is observ- 

 able that the arrivals after the middle of 

 April have produced the largest number of 

 fish. 



MR. FRANK BUCKLAND'S SHIPMENT. 



Mr. Frank Buckland was next commis- 

 sioned by the Otago Government to under- 

 take a trial for New Zealand, the details of 

 which will be found in Land and Water for 

 January, 1875 ; but, unfortunately, it was a 

 complete failure, partly owing, probably, to 

 some causes over which he had no control, 

 among them the extreme severity of the 

 weather during the collection and packing 



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