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packed in moss, and deposited in some of the ice 

 vaults in England, might be kept in an unde- 

 veloped state and afterwards hatched into living 

 fish. 



In accordance with this determination of the 

 Commissioners, Mr. Eamsbottom at once proceeded 

 to Melbourne, from whence he took his departure 

 in the steamship Great Britain, and reached 

 England in December. 



While despatching Mr. Eamsbottom to England 

 for the purpose mentioned, the Commissioners, 

 retaining a lively sense of the zeal and «iergy dis- 

 played by their fellow colonist Mr. J. A. Youl in 

 the first attempt which they had made to introduce 

 the Salmon into the Colony, and then recently 

 brought to an unsuccessful conclusion, addressed a 

 letter to that gentleman, earnestly requesting his 

 continued co-operation in their renewed endeavour 

 to effect this great object ; and subsequently com- 

 mitted the direction of all that was to be done in 

 England to the Australian Association, to whom 

 the management of the first experiment had been 

 entrusted, knowing that, as on the previous occa- 

 sion, it would practically devolve on Mr. Youl, one 

 of its members. 



The Australian Association accepted the trust 

 which the Commissioners desired them to under- 

 take, but immediately delegated to Mr. Youl " the 



