THE SALMON OVA.

Evening Star, Issue 4081, 25 March 1876, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE SALMON OVA.

In a letter to Sir Samuel Wilson, of Ercildoun—at whose expense the shipment of ova for Victoria was made— Mr Frank Buckland writes, under date January 10 “ Sir, I have the honor to inform you that ever since my first consultation with Mr Brooks and Mr Youl, I have spared no labor to bring the experiment of bringing salmon to Australia and New Zealand to, a successful ending. Several boards of salmon conservators throughout the country have kindly given us liberty to take eggs. Among these should 'be mentioned the Severn, the Chester, Dee, the Lune, the Dart, the Axe, the

Kibble, the Eden, the Dovey, <fec. From the above rivers Mr Youl’s agents have collected salmon eggs from the Ribble and the Severn,, while I myself have collected them from the’ ! Dart, in Devonshire, and the Lune in Lancashire. 1 have used every care and precaution in manipulating the , parent fish, and have every reason to * believe that the eggs were properly impregnated. The first lot of eggs I placed at the bottom of the ice- ,• house on Tuesday, 11th January. 1 The boxes, which will be found

near the top of the ice-house, were deposited therein on Thursday, January J 13. When the ice is removed from the boxes the lids should be taken off with the least possible shaking, and the box (moss and all) should be quietly - sunk into a tub of water, care being ' taken that the water ■ in the tub should be about the same temperature as that in the ice-house. A‘ * register thermometer will be found in A box at the bottom of the icb-house. Careful notes should be taken of what 1

was the maximum and minimum temperature during the voyage, ' .The thermometer, marked 34 when R was closed up in the box. ’ When the moss is thoroughly satu- : rated with water it should be carefully separated, and the live eggs separated' ‘ from the dead ones. They should then' : .be placed in a proper hatching anna' ratus. Should this not be AvaflabS for the moment, they should be placed

*" nr ui aua a scream of water turned on to them. In order to give ■"* the treatment of the youfag "fidb T when hatched out, I send you the best work on fish culture recently published. I trust with all w i faculties that this experiment will ! ium out a success. Austria and ' N$w A Zealand owe their trout to. &r YbiiL * 1 Mr Franbis, and myself, and I live in - hopes that your generous efforts to ‘ salmohise ’ Australia will by success. I shall be muchpfeased# you would write me another note and * report progress.—Yoursobedi&itly, ■' “Frank Buckland,' v “ r Figheriea, 1 ‘ “J3ir Samuel WjUwjn.” 3