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THE CALIFORNIAN SALMON. 
the shipment should be paid by me, the United States 
Government, with a noble generosity worthy of all praise, 
presented them free of charge ; a very handsome present 
indeed, for which I made due acknowledgments on behalf 
of the colony. Mr. Firth, who interested himself in 
forwarding them from New Zealand to Sydney, and who 
incurred some items of expense, declined to furnish an 
account of the same, although I am loth to cause him any 
outlay ; and I would now thank him for his uncalled for 
generosity, although I expected, and should have much 
preferred, to have had the matter placed on a proper 
business footing. 
I had prepared myself for the undertaking, and ob- 
tained a good knowledge of fish culture, by reading 
up all the books I could obtain on the subject, includ- 
ing the writings of Frank Buckland, Francis, Living- 
stone Stone, Norris, and also the papers on fish culture 
which have been published in the proceedings of the 
Societe cT Acclimatation of France. I also gained much 
practical knowledge, by having under my care, while 
hatching, several lots of Salmo fario and Salmo trutta , and 
was better able, after the experience thus obtained, to 
undertake the care of the Californian salmon ova, during 
their hatching and distribution in the Victorian rivers. 
THE CALIFORNIAN SALMON. 
The Californian salmon ( Salmo quinnat of Richardson, or 
Salmo lycaodon of Pallas) is, according to Gunther, of the 
sub-class Teleostei, of the order Physostomi, of the family 
of the Salmonidse, and genus Oncorhynchus (Suckley 
Ann. Lyc Nat. Hist. 1861, p. 312). 
