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To this proposition the Government and Parlia- 

 ment promptly and liberally assented ; and the 

 sum of £800 having been placed at their disposal, 

 the Commissioners lost no time in taking measm-es 

 for the performance of the task assigned to them. 



They made immediate application to Mr. James 

 Youl, who had so zealously and successfully con- 

 ducted the previous shipment of Ova, and whose 

 co-operation they regarded as almost indispensable 

 to success, soliciting him again to afiford them his 

 valuable assistance, and not doubting his ready 

 compliance. 



In this expectation, however, the Commissioners 

 were disappointed : Mr. Youl declined to engage 

 again in a work which had already cost him much 

 personal labour and anxiety ; and as his reply was 

 not received until it was too late to make other 

 arrangements for carrying out their object dming 

 that year, the season was thus lost to them. 



Under this difficulty and disappointment, the 

 Commissioners, in concert with the Council of the 

 Acclimatisation Society of Victoria, who had always 

 cordially co-operated with them in this important 

 work, determined to seek the aid of Mr. Edward 

 Wilson, then resident in England, who had always 

 taken a warm and practical interest in our ^srevious 

 attempts to introduce the Salmon into the Eivers 

 of Australia. 



