Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand . .. 54 „ 5 „ 49 „ „ 50 „ 17 12 noon 54 „ „ 56 „ The American whitefish were received February 21st, 1878. First box opened all were box yielded some good eggs, which began to hatch at once, on being put into the boxes, asalready mentioned. All the hatching was over in about one day; so that above table shows thetime during which the fish remained in the boxes, as well as the daily thermal readings. Note.—Clarks Patent American Hatching-box has layers of trays of brass wire gauze, oneabove the other, enclosed in a box
Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand . .. 54 „ 5 „ 49 „ „ 50 „ 17 12 noon 54 „ „ 56 „ The American whitefish were received February 21st, 1878. First box opened all were box yielded some good eggs, which began to hatch at once, on being put into the boxes, asalready mentioned. All the hatching was over in about one day; so that above table shows thetime during which the fish remained in the boxes, as well as the daily thermal readings. Note.—Clarks Patent American Hatching-box has layers of trays of brass wire gauze, oneabove the other, enclosed in a box watertight except at the bottom. The water flows downwardshrough these, out at bottom and rising to the top of an outer box, flows over into the next set ofboxes, and so on. This seems likely to remove all sediment. Hector.—On Salmon Trout in Nelson Harbour. 211 Art. XXVII.—Ow the Occurrence of the Salmon Trout in Nelson Harbour, By James Hector, before the Wellington Philosophical Society, llth September, 1881.]. Salmo trutta, l. Nelson Harbour. Female after spawning. B. 11. D. 13. A. 11. P. 13. V. 9. 120. L. transv. ff ; above V. 75-^. Vert. 58. Cac. Pyl. 40 +. length 25 Greatest depth .. .. .. .. .. .. 5 Length of head .. .. .. .. .. .. 5 Least depth of tail .. .. .. .. .. 2 Distance between end of snout and eye .. .. 1*2 Length of maxillary bone .. .. .. .. 2 Distance between eye and angle of operculum .. 3 Distance between occiput and origin of dorsal fin .. 7End of dorsal to root of .. .. .. 7*5 Length of base of .. .. .. .. 2*8 Greatest height of dorsal 2 Length of pectoral .. .. .. .. .. 36 Eoot of pectoral to ventral .. .. .. .. 7*4 Length of ventral .. .. .. .. .. 2*5 Ventral to anal .. .. .. .. .. .. 5 Length of anal .. .. .. .. .. .. 33 Greatest depth of anal 2*9 Length of longest caudal, say 3-2 „ middle „ 1-9 Weight, 64 greatest depth of the body is beneath the middle of the dorsal
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