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THE CALIFORNIA^ SALMON. 
hundred boxes. The trout ova were collected by 
Mr. Frank Buckland and Mr. Francis, and the fish hatched 
from these are the parents of all the trout now in Australia 
and New Zealand, except those from the shipment lately 
received from England by the Ghimborazo. The trout 
ova by the Norfolk^ were taken from fish in Admiral 
Keppel’s preserves in the Itchen, and sent as a present to 
Mr. Toul by Mr. Buckland. Mr. Francis also collected 
a lot of trout eggs for the same shipment. 
The salmon ova were obtained by Mr. J. A. Youl, C.M.Gr., 
from the Severn, the Eibble, the Tyne, and the Tweed. 
To Mr. Toul is due the credit of the discovery of the 
proper mode of packing the ova for transmission on a 
long sea voyage, by placing them in moss and charcoal, in 
wooden boxes placed below the ice in an ice-house ; and 
under his personal care and superintendence they were 
put on board the Norfolk. The boxes containing the 
ova were placed in an ice-house made to receive them, 
and were surrounded by 32 tons of ice. The ship sailed 
on the 21st of January, 1864, and the voyage occupied 
77 days. The undertaking was a joint affair between the 
Victorian Grovernment, represented by the Acclimatisation 
Society, and the Salmon Commissioners on behalf of the 
Grovernment of Tasmania. The greater portion of the 
ova was forwarded to Tasmania, reaching Hobart Town 
on the 20th April. Arrangements had been made by the 
Salmon Commissioners, appointed by the Tasmanian 
Government, and a hatching apparatus was ready for the 
reception of the ova. On the boxes being opened, only 
one-third of the eggs were found to possess any vitality, 
and out of these only 3000 fish were hatched, notwith- 
standing that Mr. Bamsbottom, the son of the noted 
pisciculturist of that name, had charge of them, and gave 
them every care. The temperature of the water in which 
they were hatched was from 46 deg. to 49 deg. On the 
