ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.

Evening Star, Issue 3989, 7 December 1875, Page 3

ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.

.This afternoon a meeting of the Council of Hie above Society was held. Present—the President {*>r W. Murison). in the chair, Mr d. C.. Begg, hon. sec., Messrs W, Arthur and F, Deans. A report was received from the manager, showing the number o £ trout which had been distributed during the season tip to the present time. The total was 9,750 fish • and 7,800 eggs, sent to various localities within and beyond the Province, A well-executedjphotograph by Messis Burton Bros, of the salmon trout recently caught in the harbor was laid on the table, together with

a report by Professor Coughtrey <-'f the contents of the fish’s st'-mach. The following resolution was passed “ That an effort be made to procure, from America, the eggs of the East Coast salmon and of salmon of the moat valuable of the American Dake fish, and with that object the sum of 1.100 be forwarded to the United States’ Commissioner of Fisheries with a request that he would forward a consignment of its eggs to the Society. . The chairman was requested to write to the Salmon Commissioners of Tasmania with a view to ascertaining what facilities the Society would obtain during the ensuing winter for obtaining salmon trout eggs, and at the same time for searching the branches of the Derwent for the eggs of the salmon. It was also resolved that a letter should be addressed to his Honor the superintendent requesting him to reserve from sale as many road lines as possible which run along the banks of streams into which fish have been turned