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Abstract

On the 8th day of February last the ship Lincolnshire left
Plymouth bound for Melbourne, having on board about
103,000 salmon and 15,000 sea trout ova stowed in an icehouse
of rather larger capacity, but of much the same construction
as that built in the ship Norfolk for the same purpose
two years ago. The whole of the arrangements for
shipping were superintended by Mr. James A. Youl, who again
exhibited the determined zeal upon which so much depended
in the former experiment. The method of packing the ova in
the boxes, and the boxes in the ice-house, has been so thoroughly
explained to the Fellows of this Society in the account
given of the former experiment that I need not again give the
details. After a rather long passage of 79 days, the Lincolnshire
arrived in Hobson's Bay, on the 30th of April last, the
ova and ice were at once transhipped to the steamship Victoria,
again most liberally placed at the disposal of the Tasmanian
Salmon Commissioners by the Victorian Government,
and arrived in the Derwent on the 4th May, and by 8 p.m. on
the following day the last of the ova were placed in the hatching
boxes at the Plenty, the water, by the help of the remaining
ice, being reduced to 4.5 Fahr.

Item Type:	Article
Authors/Creators:	Allport, Morton
Keywords:	Royal Society of Tasmania, Van Diemens Land, VDL, Hobart Town, natural sciences, proceedings, records
Journal or Publication Title:	Monthly Notices of Papers & Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania
Collections:	Royal Society Collection > Papers & Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania
Additional Information:	In 1843 the Horticultural and Botanical Society of Van Diemen's Land was founded and became the Royal Society of Van Diemen's Land for Horticulture, Botany, and the Advancement of Science in 1844. In 1855 its name changed to Royal Society of Tasmania for Horticulture, Botany, and the Advancement of Science. In 1911 the name was shortened to Royal Society of Tasmania.
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