TASMANIA. 



EEPOET or SALMON COMMIS- 

 SIONEES, 1864. 



To His Excellency Colonel Thomas Goke Browne, C.B., 

 Captain- General and Governor-in-Chief of the Colony of 

 Tasmania and its Dependencies. 



May it please Youe Excellency, 



In the month of September,. 1862, the Commis- 

 sioners had the honour to report to Your Excellency 

 that, profiting by the important lesson derived 

 from the history of the little box of Salmon Ova 

 embedded in moss, which had been placed in the 

 ice-house of the Beautiful Star, as detailed in the 

 extract from Mr; W. Eamsbottom's log appended 

 to their Eeport dated August, 1862, they had 

 resolved to send Mr. W. Eamsbottom back to 

 England with the least possible delay, in order 

 that he might assist in ascertaining from actual 

 experiment for what periods the Salmon Ova 



