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reasserted it in a letter to Dr. BuUer which 

 was pubhshed in the official " Papers re- 

 lating to the Introduction of Salmon Ova 

 into New Zealand, 1872" (G. No. 26). 

 The disingenuous character of the letter 

 must be apparent to every one who reads it. 

 Mr. Frank Buokland has done so much 

 good service in fish culture and preservation 

 that he needs no other title to public re- 

 cognition. However, there is an impression 

 that he was the author of the acclimatisation 

 of salmon at the Antipodes — an impression 

 which must be dispersed. It is compara- 

 tively easy to correct a mis-statement when 

 made viva voce, but if it appears in a news- 

 paper the correction should also be admitted 

 in its columns. This was not the case with 

 the Pall Mall Gazette, to which the writer 

 sent two distinct communications, pointing 

 out the error in the following sentence in 

 the issue of August 7, 1873, in a paragraph 

 referring to the shipment of salmon ova per 

 Oheron in that year : " The experiments 

 which have hitherto been carried on by Mr. 

 Buckland and others," &c. No notice what- 



