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but for the brown or English trout its streams have 
been proved to be well adapted, and when our ponds 
have reached the age of those in Tasmania, and 
Victoria has made up the valuable time which has been 
lost, results equal, if not superior, to those in the sister 
colony should be seen. 
When the first salmon and trout ova arrived from 
England en route to Tasmania, in April, 1862, three 
boxes of salmon ova were retained, as a safeguard 
and experiment. The ova were hatched at the 
Victoria Ice Company’s Works, under the care of the 
then Secretary of the Society, and the fry were placed 
by Mr. Ramsbottom in the Badger Creek, a tributary 
of the Upper Yarra, since when nothing authentic is 
known of them. The gentleman in whose charge they 
were placed prior to then being turned out, and who 
has been a salmon fisher in Scotland, declares that he 
has since heard salmon leaping in that tributary. 
Would he were right ! 
Of salmon trout more will be said presently in con- 
nection with the ponds. The books of the Society 
show that in 1863, in remitting monies to England 
towards the expense of a second shipment of salmon 
ova, instructions were given to Mr. Youl to send 
salmon trout ova also. 
The trout ova which arrived on the occasion 
referred to were procured by Mr. Frank Buckland and 
Mr. Francis Francis from the best trout streams in 
England, for Mr. Youl, and were sent by him as a 
present to Mr. Edward Wilson, in this colony, who, at 
Mr. Ramsbottom’s earnest request, very wisely allowed 
them to go to Tasmania, proper appliances being ready 
there to receive and hatch them — it being promised 
