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REPORT. 
President of the Acclimatisation Society. Mr. Wilson 
always took a deep interest in the progress of the 
Society, and from time to time, even to the period of 
his death, assisted its efforts most liberally ; his last 
gift to the Society, which arrived at the same time as 
the news of his decease, consisting of two Wardian cases 
of truffle mould, procured in France for experiment in 
the colony. 
The Council is much gratified at having to record 
a splendid success in the introduction of Californian 
Salmon fSalmo QiiinnatJ, through the instrumentality 
and liberality of Sir Samuel Wilson. Some months 
ago, that gentleman obtained a consignment of 50,000 
Salmon ova from San Francisco, which, on arrival in 
New Zealand, were forwarded by Mr. Firth, the Pre- 
sident of the Acclimatisation Society at Auckland, who 
takes a deep interest in the experiment ; on reaching 
Melbourne, in November last, the boxes containing the 
ova were at once transferred to Ercildoune, and the 
eggs, with all possible despatch, placed in hatching- 
boxes, which had been prepared for their reception. The 
process of hatching very soon commenced, and the final 
result has been that many thousands of young Salmon 
have been placed in the best and most suitable streams 
of Victoria. 
The Council is pleased with the success which has 
attended its efforts to stock the Watts (one of the 
principal tributaries of the Yarra) with Trout, which was 
done in the year 1871. A number of fry having been 
placed in the river at Healesville and Fernshaw, and it 
is gratifying to know that the fish have succeeded in a 
