ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 2048, 28 August 1868, Page 2

ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.

'.[ Ameeiing of the Council.of the AccKmatisation Society was; held yesterday^ afternoon, in tHe long) room at^ the Athenaeum. There were present Messrs. , A Carrick, Honorary Secretary ; J. A. Ewen, and F.> Fulton.;, , ; ; ■; :

Mr Carrick read a letter from Mr W. C. Yojrig] in which that gentleman, after"^ - acknoMedging the receipt of information ■:' as to thfe arrivarof the Celestial Qiieeii^ "/'■ wrote-y-" The.oyaof the Salmo Umbla and ,"? ' Trout jwere; on-.the top of the ice in'tha:" ■ ice-house, which position, it iswell-knowa^: ::■ is much less favorable than uhderneaUti .irthe ice, both on account .of the disturbance of the'boxes as the ice melts, and also of "the absence" "of wateFTpaßsing through those boxes, by which "freshness the'■ mossfwould be insured, ranaFthi^"'/.* 'oxygen supplied'for the -preservatlbii of v'- r, the OTJa. , From the report of the Coni- Jii :■ roittee, the mortality, especially of tbe- | Salmo:Umbla;-is very?great, still 'Ihope' ! a large portion : of: those" considered good jwili be safely hatched in your boxes,' and; the 'evidence of 'eyes' i^ '4 -*''''* certain proof that some of the <w£s&] least, were" safely landed. ;v.':: . . ■ Vjt- „:• have |to acknowledge receipt of *; twtt w: bottles, containing specimens of defunct ova of Trout and Sahno Umbla, which ZT*^" presume yoiL" Mr YqiU, who h>;s seeTt.tJikm, informs m4-~l ■ ; that?in eiperimebtshe' has made, fey de^'-- ' positing a number of boxes of ova,* packed in^precisely the same; way, in^ icel -;' at the' Wenham Lake Company's storeaj?-'/ for 90 days, .he has found on opening • them the. same appearances of decay and bluish-mould in some, as are described in your reporfc- 'In the ice-house, one wbnLT,~T suppose the ova would repose under,' the- " most favorablb 'circunistatlces possible"; ~'• and being all packed in the same way, .'. by 'the same^ person, and with, -the' . . same material, a uniform resulfe' would naturally be looked for. Neyei?thelesgi, Mr Toul says " lie . foiind; the moss in some as if pressed dowilm " packing—which couldnot have happened —rsome of the oja matted. together,"and "'"' the bluish mould referred to.' LHe"subA .mitted^ some of the mouldTo Mr Buci:land's inspidtiony but vrh'ence^ii arises^ -^.'- --; why this different-result should be founit'l in boxes similarly packed^ has never" tieegt- '■ accounted for, and remains still a mystervi - ": •''* It serves, however, to make us. wonderless at the results found after "a long and rough voyage: . . . lam greatly vexed at'the loss of all the living fish, threugfe the grbss negligence of tiie people from •whom; I purchased the- refrigerator.;- I r~ shall take care to see'them.^ ",""' Mr Carrick also'read'aletter-from'lSfe J. Wl Graves;,; of the,: Hobart^JEp^ii". Spcietry, announcing that he. had shipped eight or ten<perch by rhe Swordfish. Ha had beenjdesired by Mr AUport to say that whoever-mightbe sent for Trout Ova for ; tne Otago Societyj should have a liheral|Bupply; .: "'.JT_ •■: „■ It was[ stated that only four of-tfie ' ? perch were landed. aKve from the Sword- • fish; that three o£ them were very sickly at'the'timj^afid that.QnlyJone was alke-by-the timerjjhe.-can had'been learned *ta ">' l the reservoir.. •",:.■■•■ ■:/•-.,;-- -y \-.'.,--.-.. -j: i~ :-;■.-, ... } -MrEwEir plated that-he'had been-tm' to Capt.Jßoyd'spr^ek,.and had seen-ihafe- _ the slaterhatching^boxes gent out-frdirti-vi England /vfere ; properly fixed, ready for J the reception of Trout Ova, wherieveff' Mr Clifford1 reWrne:d c£rom-Tasraao.ia.-^~ The total depth of these boxes, ,from %$ ■■- ; bottom-of the pipe which allows water to> flow from one to the other, is but 3in. the L average depth:being ; 2|in. Thu3, when'--* > gravel is placed in tlie'boxes, there canno^ :' be more than ; aibout lin, , depth of waterl' * The boxes .have been presented to the Society^ by a gentlemau^who, takes-axt■""-"": interest in it; and they are understood 'l} ' to have been approved of "by-Mr Buck- " land. '.. ,-r ..'•'.',.' : ' '' "•' """ ,'■ ■"