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done. When McArthur and his Merinos will be 

 so mixed up together as that you can't separate 

 the grain from the chaff, Youl and his Salmon 

 will go hand in hand down to the last of posterity 

 in Australia. 



Believe me, my dear Youl, that no man in 

 Australia rejoices more at the success you have 

 achieved than 



Your sincere friend, 



L. MACKINNON.* 

 J. A. Youl, Esq. 



* Mr. Laohlan Mackinnon was a subscriber of £40 10s. to the 

 fund raised to make the first shipment of Salmon Ova to the 

 Antipodes in 1861. He subsequently went to Paris for the purpose 

 of obtaining the advice of M. Coste as to the best means to be 

 adopted in the next shipment, and also to Belgium to consult with 

 M. Scham, another celebrated pisciculturist ; and became acquainted, 

 in his capacity of Hon. Secretary and Treasurer to the Austrahan 

 Association, with all the details of the shipments hy Beautiful Star 

 and Norfolk — the government of Tasmania having entrusted the 

 conduct of future shipments of Salmon Ova to Tasmania to this 

 Association. — A. N. 



