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and 85,000 manipulated by Mr. Buckland. 

 The latter had discarded the tray system, 

 and used boxes of the same kind and about 

 twice as large as Mr. Youl's, but without 

 charcoal and broken ice, and distributed the 

 eggs upon the moss under water with a 

 camel-hair brush in several alternate layers. 

 The vessel having arrived at Melbourne, 

 batches of boxes were distributed to the 

 curator of the botanical gardens, Geelong, 

 Dr. Whitcombe of Ballarat, the Victoria 

 Ice Company's works, and Sir Samuel "Wil- 

 son, whose estate is near Lake Burrumbeet, 

 who had made most careful preparation for 

 the 30,000 ova of which he took charge. 

 From a letter of Sir Samuel's it is evident 

 that these yielded no result except five 

 fish, which he hatched out, and only one 

 survived. This is, no doubt rightly, attri- 

 buted by Sir Samuel to the high tempera- 

 ture of the water at his hatching boxes, 

 which stood at 60° or 62° for several con- 

 secutive days, though the situation is 

 1600 feet above the level of the sea. In 

 Melbourne it was at first reported that 



