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qiiently that they were not, it was scarcely 

 a judicious proceeding to pack them in an 

 ice-house with "an ice-making machine 

 freezing up an immense quantity of water 

 into ice within a few inches of us while we 

 were at work." The Timaru sailed about 

 January 5, 1875, from the Clyde, and had 

 a passage of about a hundred and five days. 

 Not a single salmon ovum reached land 

 alive out of this splendid shipment of m,ore 

 than a quarter of a million, but a number 

 of the charr eggs, presented by Mr. Parnaby 

 of Keswick, hatched; of the ultimate fate 

 of the fry from which no definite record has 

 been obtained. We cannot attribute failure 

 to the long passage alone, for Mr. Buckland 

 hatched out eggs which had been in ice at 

 the Wenham Lake Company's vault for only 

 three days less than these ; and a portion 

 at least of the charr eggs, which naturally 

 hatch earlier than those of salmon, and 

 therefore, were subjected to a greater strain 

 of retardation, produced fish. 



Sincerely as Mr. Buckland' s failure must 

 be regretted, the " full responsibility " — as 



