174 APPENDIX. 



[Copies of three Letters from Mr. R. Ramsbottom, of 

 Clitheroe, to Mr. James A. YouL] 



No. 1. 



Clitheroe, November 8, 1862. 

 Deae Sib, 



I have your letter this morning, and can get 

 you Ova in this neighbourhood at any time between 

 this time and the end of December, by your writing 

 to one or two of our proprietors, which I will 

 mention at the time you want it. 



We have Salmon spawning in every stream at 

 present, and shall have to the end of next month, 

 and even after that time. The first spawn I got 

 in Ireland last year was the last week in November. 

 The west of Ireland salmon is about a fortnight or 

 three weeks later then we have them in this neigh- 

 bourhood. All I wish is, that you understood 

 Salmon spawn as well as I do myself. You might 

 as well try to fetch Australia to England as to 

 carry spawn to it in moss. Salmon spawn must 

 either be hatching or dying from the moment it 

 leaves the fish. You can retard it to about 140 

 days by a low temperature, but no longer, and 

 you can hasten the progress by a high temperature, 

 and hatch them in from thu-ty to forty days, and 

 that is just what you can do ; but neither one man 

 nor another can carry living Ova to Australia in 



