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mittee consisting of gentlemen interested in the particular pursuits 
to which the sub-committee respectively related. That as to the 
progress of the acclimatisation of fish, to which he had paid more 
particular attention, the sub-committee had come to the conclusion, 
that rather than at present incur the expense of preparing and keep¬ 
ing up breeding and rearing ponds, it would he better to subscribe 
a certain sum per annum towards the cost of the ponds in Tasmania, 
aud obtain from thence a supply of ova in return, which could be 
hatched at the Royal Park, and the young fish distributed, when 
ready for removal, as indicated in the Report. By this means the 
produce of the parent fish might be drafted into the streams each year, 
instead of risking the increase to comparatively few fish turned loose 
into a large stream, exposed to all their enemies. Several gentlemen 
had already, at their own expense, prepared breeding ponds for the 
reception of fish, some for trout, and others for perch. The sub¬ 
committee had just completed a pond at the Royal Park, and he 
had had the pleasure and satisfaction of placing a number of young 
perch in it that day, which he had just received from Tasmania, 
from his brother Mr. Morton Allport ; a similar number had also 
been placed in a pond, prepared by the Hon. A. Michie. 
Air. Coppin remarked, that when in Tasmania, within the last week, 
a gentleman had killed twenty-five genuine trout there at one day’s 
fishing, which was considered a good basket. 
The Chairman called attention to some specimens on the table, 
one was a trout (preserved in spirits), the first caught in Riddell’s 
Creek, Mount Macedon, one of the numerous fry placed in the 
creek upwards of eighteen months ago. There were also some ex¬ 
cellent samples of silk, sent by Mrs. Pike, of Toorak, and Mrs. 
Heuley, and Mrs. Talbot, of Richmond. Sericulture he expected 
to become at no distant date a very important industry. 
A discussion of a conversational character ensued relative to the 
scope and objects of the Society. The chairman stated that the 
Society, acting on tho suggestion of the Government, had some time 
ago sent over goats, rabbits, pigs, and poultry, to the Auckland 
Isles, for the sustenance of such persons as were unfortunate 
enough to be shipwrecked there. Wrecks had occurred on the 
island since, and the live stock had proved of great benefit. 
