400 ANNUAL RECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



acquisition of Alsace, into the bands of the Germans, and a 

 project is now on foot, on the part of the French government, 

 to make the necessary arrangements for a similar breeding- 

 house at Montbeliard. There already exist several establish- 

 ments of the kind in France one at La Buisse, and another 

 at Clermont-Ferrand, the latter furnishing 30,000 ova of trout 

 annually for replenishing the various streams in the depart- 

 ment. 12 A, May 2, 1872, 13. 



FISHERY EXPOSITION AT GOTHENBURG. 



A Swedish and Norwegian fishery exhibition was held dur- 

 ing the past summer at Gothenburg, the articles offered for 

 competition filling a building one hundred and thirty feet 

 long and fifty-three feet wide. There were two classes of 

 these articles the products of the fisheries, and the appara- 

 tus used for prosecuting them. Among the articles presented 

 were various forms offish manures, prepared mainly from the 

 refuse of the cod-fishery, as gathered and treated on the Lof- 

 foden Islands. There was also a great variety of fish pre- 

 pared in different ways, not only by drying, salting, pickling, 

 etc., but put up in more pretentious forms, like anchovies, 

 sardines, and the like. Among these was a preparation of 

 fresh herring, which was considered extremely delicious, the 

 recipe for which may be of interest to our readers. 



The freshly-caught herrings are laid immediately in vine- 

 gar diluted with about one fourth water, and with the addi- 

 tion of a little salt. They are left in this solution twenty- 

 four hours, after which they are taken out and the liquid al- 

 lowed to drain off. They are then to be placed in kegs or 

 jars, and a mixture of the following ingredients sprinkled in 

 among them. For each lot of eighty fish, one pound of dry, 

 fine, soluble salt, one pound of common sugar, half an ounce 

 of coarse pepper, half an ounce of bay leaves, half an ounce 

 of saltpetre, one fourth of an ounce of red sanders (to impart 

 a handsome red color), one eighth of an ounce of ginger, and 

 one eighth of an ounce of cloves. 8 C^Febraary 1, 1872, 35. 



FISH-CULTURISTS' ASSOCIATION AT ALBANY. 



The second annual meeting of the American Fish-cultur- 

 ists' Association was held at Albany on the 7th of February 

 last, and was attended by a large number of gentlemen inter- 



