106 THE ACCLIMATISATION 



assiduity and excellent judgment that they 

 ■were finally enabled to despatch five hun- 

 dred fine smolts to the sea. Had Mr. 

 Buckland done as much as this even it. 

 would have entitled him to consider he had 

 some share in the estabUshment of salmon, 

 in that colony. Some recognition of Mr. 

 Youl's efforts to benefit the colonies com- 

 mercially and to solve a knotty scientific 

 problem has been made by the colonial go- 

 vernments and acclimatisation societies, in 

 the form of votes of thanks and medals, and 

 Lord Carnarvon recommended him to her 

 Majesty for the distinction of Companion- 

 ship of the order of St. Michael and St. 

 George, which has accordingly been con- 

 ferred upon him expressly in acknowledg- 

 ment of this service to the colonies. 



That salmon-trout and brown trout are 

 now abundant in colonial streams is incon- 

 testable, and scarcely less certain that 

 salmon are also plentiful ; it remains for- 

 the colonists to foster their rich property.. 

 There is na reason why every stream and 

 lake south of the 28th parallel of latitude 



