ITS ORIGIN AND PROGRESS. 7 



attention of the Government was arrested. The 

 subject was considered, and finally it was determined 

 that a grant of 30,000 francs (1,250?.) should be 

 made, to create the establishment which subsequently 

 arose at Huningue. A brief description of the pisci- 

 cultural establishment at Huningue may not, perhaps, 

 be altogether out of place here. 



This establishment is situated at no great distance 

 from the Ehine, near the Ehine and Ehone Canal, 

 and in the neighbourhood of some large springs, the 

 water from which is used for the partial hatching of 

 the ova — for a comparatively small portion of ova is 

 really hatched at Huningue, the ova being sent 

 away to all parts of France, and even Europe, when 

 it is so far vitalized that the eyes of the embryo 

 within can be discerned. These eggs are then placed 

 in receptacles prepared for them, and the process of 

 incubation is completed. 



The space covered by the establishment at Huningue 

 is about thirty-six hectares (about seventy acres), and 

 on this handsome buildings of considerable size are 

 erected, with suitable offices for the manager and the 

 attendants ; these buildings being disposed in the form 

 of a square, the middle or chief one containing the 

 offices. This is forty-eight metres long by eleven metres 

 wide. The buildings which stand at right angles to it 



