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sustained. These may be some of the 

 causes of the failure of Mr. Bucldand's 

 plan, but, granting that they are not neces- 

 sarily, while we are imperfectly acquainted 

 with the true causes of success or failure, it 

 would be prudent to adhere to a method of 

 treatment which has justified itself hitherto 

 in every instance. Mr. Buckland might 

 possibly have hit upon an infallible plan, 

 and the world would have been duly grate- 

 ful to him for his discovery; but, as the 

 event proved, the plan adopted was not 

 calculated to insure success, and the whole 

 valuable cargo of the Timaru was lost, 

 when he might have commanded success, 

 and still had room for independent experi- 

 ments. 



THE " CHIMBORAZO." 



The following article appeared in the 

 Field of January 26, 1878. 



"It behoves the colonists to see that the 

 consignment of salmon ova shipped this 

 month by the Chivihorazo (s.s.) is intrusted 



