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Mr. Buckland's boxes were in better con- 

 dition than Mr. Youl's ; but the Melbourne 

 Argus, which has been more trustworthy on 

 the subject of these experiments throughout 

 than any other colonial journal, says : '' The 

 result proved that Mr. Youl's system of 

 packing was decidedly the best." How- 

 ever, the rest of the consignment being 

 forwarded to New Zealand, Mr. Howard, 

 the superintendent of the ponds at Wallace 

 Town, Southland, can give the best account 

 of the comparative results. On May 1, 

 1876, he writes to Mr. Youl : "Your own 

 ova hatched as truly as if taken from 

 one of our own rivers, scarcely a death at 

 hatching. . . . The large boxes packed by 

 you had scarcely a dead ovum in them. 

 Mr. Buckland's lot, though some of them 

 looked so well impregnated, have not 

 hatched off well, so many died just before 

 hatchiug, and so many of them burst." 



On May 29th he says : "I am soiry to say 



Mr. Buckland's have hatched very badly. 



... so many burst before hatching." At 



the Melbourne ice-house Mr. Clifford, who 



