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the prospect of obtaining this valuable fish, 

 and your perseverance in this patriotic 

 •effort, which has resulted so successfully, 

 is deserving of every praise, and has not yet 

 been acknowledged in the manner which it 

 -deserves to be. 



" On behalf of Australia, if I may be per- 

 mitted to speak in her name, I beg to offer 

 my warmest and most grateful thanks for 

 the exertions which you have so cheerfully 

 bestowed, as well as for former valuable 

 iservices of the same kind." 



Mr, Thomas Brady, one of the Salmon 

 Commissioners for Ireland, also bears the 

 same testimony in a letter to Land and 

 Water of February 9, 1878. 



The whole of the success has been claimed 

 for Mr. Buckland repeatedly, and he has 

 not been careful to disavow the honour at aU 

 times and in all places, while a gentleman 

 who has done good service, Mr. R. Dawbin 

 of New Zealand, has been ignored in official 

 reports and everywhere else. He and Mrs. 

 Dawbin nursed the young fry from the ova 

 ■sent out by the Celestial Queen with such 



