APPENDIX. 149 



Some hours after the first portion of the cases 

 had reached their destination, and after some 

 alterations had been made in the gravel of the 

 hatching boxes in the ponds, Mr. Eamsbottom, 

 zealously assisted by one of the Commissioners, 

 Mr. Morton Allport, began the process of unpacking 

 the Ova from the little boxes in which they had 

 been so long imprisoned, and placing them in the 

 limpid stream which had long been awaiting their 

 advent. This operation was continued during the 

 remaining part of the afternoon and a great portion 

 of the night, and actively resumed at the dawn of 

 the following day, in the course of which it was 

 concluded. 



This process was conducted by Mr. Eamsbottom 

 in the most careful manner, and in the way which 

 his experience and observation had taught him was 

 least likely to injure the delicate and sensitive Ova. 



The layer of moss, over the surface of which the 

 Ova were scattered, was immersed in the gently 

 flowing water of the breeding troughs, by the 

 action of which the Ova, both dead and living, 

 were quickly disengaged from the moss, and quietly 

 settled down on the gravel below. 



The removal of the dead Ova was a further and 

 subsequent, as well as a laborious and delicate 

 task, but was executed with all possible despatch. 



After a considerable number of the small boxes 



