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THE CALIFORNIAN SALMON. 
ditions. We have instances of animals introduced here 
succeeding in the most wonderful way, and of others 
which seem to promise equally well, but which utterly 
fad, so that the test of experiment is the safest guide. 
It is only about sixty years since that a salmon of 
twenty pounds weight was caught in the Thames, near 
Windsor, notwithstanding that the sewage from millions 
of people living on its banks was allowed to flow into it, 
and salmon have been re-introduced into that river by Mr. 
Prank Buckland within the last few years, with a good 
prospect of success. 
The following account of the successful conveyance of 
the first lot of about 4000 salmon fry from Ercildoune to 
the Gellibrand Eiver, a fine stream running into the sea 
some miles to the westward of Cape Otway, was sent by 
me to the Argus of December 20th, 1877, on my return 
from the trip, which was to me one of great enjoyment : — ■ 
“I have just returned from the Cape Otway ranges, 
where I have been distributing the first lot of the young 
salmon in the fine streams of that district. I placed the 
fish in four cans, each capable of containing about ten 
gallons of water, about 2000 fish in each can, at about two 
p.m. on Monday. The fish were lifted from the hatching- 
boxes with a small net, and placed in a pan containing 
water, which was poured into the cans from time to time, 
the fish being carried along with the water. A current 
was kept up in the cans by a stream from a hose, and 
syphons from one can to the other, the cans being at 
different levels. 
“ At half-past four it was time to start for the railway 
station. The cans were placed in the express waggon, and 
protected from the sun and air by thick, padded covers, 
and the temperature slightly lowered by placing pounded 
ice in the water. The water in the cans was serated every 
