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There are many risks to the delicate ova 

 in transmitting them to Tasmania, beside 

 those of procuring and packing them. Thus, 

 for instance, on arrival at Melbourne, they 

 were landed, transferred to another ship, 

 underwent a second sea voyage of some five 

 hundred miles to Hobart Town, then taken 

 in a barge twenty miles up the Derwent, 

 and finally carried five miles across rough 

 country to the breeding ponds on the Plenty. 

 We may, indeed, feel surprise that any 

 should have reached their destination safely. 



Various persons have from time to time 

 claimed to be the originators of Mr. Youl's 

 plan of transport, or it has been claimed for 

 them by others, and sometimes the recipients 

 of this undeserved honour have accepted it 

 as their due, although they knew they had 

 no title to it. The writer has made it his 

 business to institute a searching inquiry into 

 these claims (and a somewhat laborious task 

 it has been), because it seemed to him that, 

 if he assumed the role of historian of an 

 important experiment in acclimatisation, 

 nothing less was due to the reader than the 



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