APPENDIX. 179 



P.S. — Your request respecting the due recording 

 in this office of the several enclosures, shall be 

 carefully attended to. 



To James A. Youl, Esq., 



Waratah House, 

 Glapham Parle, near London. 



Tasmania, Colonial Secretary's Office, 



23rc« April, 1864. 

 SiK, 



I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letters 



of the 26th February ; that addressed to Dr. 



Officer I handed to him after perusal. 



You will receive by this Mail from the Commis- 

 sioners full accounts of the safe arrival of the 

 Salmon Ova, and their deposit in the prepared 

 ponds on the Eiver Plenty, above New Norfolk. 



It affords me great pleasure to be able to offer 

 you my sincere congratulations upon the success 

 of this most interesting and important experiment ; 

 and on behalf of myself and colleagues I beg to 

 convey to you the thanks of the Government and 

 the Colonists of Tasmania for your unwearied exer- 

 tions in combatting with the difficulties which 

 opposed you at every step, and thus finally enabling 

 me to communicate the gratifying intelligence that 

 success had crowned your endeavours. 



