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undertook gratuitously the superintendence 

 of all tlie shipments of ova to the Antipodes. 



" AUTHUB NiOOLS." 



" Sept. 1st, 1873. 



The ahove letter was never challenged. 

 The reader already knows that Mr. Buck- 

 land had made no experiment in this direc- 

 tion, either alone or in conjunction with 

 others, until his unfortunate failure in the 

 Timaru two years later. 



After this it is instructive to read a letter 

 from Mr. Buckland published in the Keports 

 for 1873, in which he undertakes to teach 

 the authorities of New Zealand the proper 

 method of treating ova for shipment, very 

 much as though he were the only person 

 who knew anything about it, and had origi- 

 nated it.* 



In a letter to the Field of June, 1878, 

 Sir S. Wilson says, addressing Mr. Youl — 



" Only for your happy thought of trying 

 the experiment of packing the ova in ice, 

 our continent would still have been without 



* See Appendix. 



