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had nearly all of Mr. Buckland's boxes, 

 says most of the eggs turned opaque, some 

 few showed the eyes, " but all such have 

 gone bad in a way quite new to me." 

 Further, he observes, "I see the Canter- 

 bury people have hatched 300. . . . These 

 were all from your (Mr. Youl's) boxes." 

 Mr. Howard succeeded in getting out some 

 10,000 young fish fi-om the whole lot in- 

 trusted to him, of which sixty-eight were 

 from Mr. Buckland's boxes. Altogether 

 about 1500 of these were afterwards 

 liberated. 



It is a matter of public interest to ascer- 

 tain the best method of treating ova for a 

 long journey, and it seems the evidence is 

 vastly in favour of Mr. Youl's. Mr. Buck- 

 land packed nearly twice as many in one 

 box, the lower layers were submitted to the 

 action of water already vitiated by contact 

 with those above, and there was not onlj^ 

 a greater mass of material in one place, but 

 the decarbonizing and oxygenating pro- 

 perties of the living moss are dissipated by 

 the greater quantity of animal life to be 



