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suppose, about 3000. I see by a press telegram 

 that they have 127 hatched, which, I suppose, re- 

 presents the hatching. I have heard nothing from 

 those at the Melbourne ice-house, which should do 

 well, as Mr. Clifford thoroughly understands his 

 business, having been several years with the 

 Dunedin Acclimatisation Society, and was with me 

 in Tasmania when we brought over the first success- 

 ful lot of Trout. The rest of the Melbourne ship- 

 ment, I fear, has met with little success ; indeed, I 

 never anticipated anything else, and it is a waste of 

 Ova to send it to a country, the lowest temperature of 

 its winter being 64°; and some 73 of those I tried 

 with Mr. Le Seouf when I was awaiting the Durham. 

 I think they have a good deal to learn there yet 

 about fish hatching, from what I saw and heard. 

 I am, I think, more pleased on your account, if 

 possible, than on my own, as it is so hard after all 

 one's trouble to be sneered at, and all because ships 

 would make bad passages, over which you could 

 have no control. I always believed it to be only a 

 matter of quick passage, and now people have got 

 over that insane idea that steamers would prove 

 certain death, we shall yet see fifty per cent, 

 hatched, I believe. 



You must excuse my writing more by this mail, 

 and as there is another mail in a week, I will 

 advise you in a short note by that if there is any- 



