722 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



inti'iistt'd by Professor Gervais to the superintendent of pisciculture of 

 the department of Herault, but lived only a few weeks (1867, 551).* 



Monographs on the habits and best means of carin" for the gouranii 

 were now presented by Messrs. Rufz de Lavison, Roujoux, and Vinson, 

 and published in the Bulletin of the Acclitnatization Society, (1801, 290, 

 355, 392, 403, 509, 514, 541, 546); and the success in bringing the five 

 specimens as far as Marseilles encouraged the friends of the fish. A 

 fresh consignment was made by M. Lienard to M. Barthelemy-Lapom- 

 meraye, at Alexandria, in February, 1862, (1862, 135. 150) ; but at the 

 same time the news of their death after their arrival in Egypt was re- 

 ceived from M. Lienard, (1862, 142, 150). 



Another volunteer (M. IManes, of the island of Reunion) soon after tend- 

 ered his services,( 1862,798, 898,917,) and several atteiupts were actually 

 made by him ; a first early failed (1862, 917; 1863,120). He, however, 

 had greater hopes of success in transportation of the fecundated ova 

 than of the developed fish. 



Soon after (in March) a number offish were sent by M. Manes, of the 

 island of Reunion, in care of M. Rignolet (1863, 307,) and some arrived 

 living at Cairo, but all succumbed on the way from that place to Alge- 

 ria (1863, 627). M. Manes then, despairing of sending them alive to 

 France, proposed to consign some to the care of the Khedive of Egypt, 

 by whom they could be ultimately forwarded to France (1863, 627). 

 This intention he carried out in the following year (October, 1804). 



But early in November of this year, M. Lienard left Mauritius with 

 ten fishes, and leaving five of them in Egy[)t in care of M. Coulon, at a 

 country-house near Cairo, he arrived at Marseilles with the rest; but 

 four of the five died soon after his arrival, on account of the changes in 

 the wind and temperature. The sole survivor was confided to the care 

 of M. Barthelemy-Lapommeraye (1863, 738, 764). Again, in October, 

 1864, M. Barthelemy-Lipommeraye was intrusted with the care of a lot 

 of seven gouramis, which had arrived in Marseilles, and had been sent 

 by M. Autard de Bragard to M. Lienard for the French Society of Accli- 

 matizntion, through the intervention of M. Georges Aubin (1865, 615). 



M. Manes subsequently sent nests of the gouramis, containing their 

 eggs, one in January, 1865, (1865, 52,) and a second in May, (1865, 356); 

 but no records of their fate were published by the society. A second 

 time, however, after all these trials, a lot of living fishes were received 

 in France. M. Autard de Bragard, of the island of Mauritius, and. ex- 

 president of the Accliinatiz;itiou Society of that island, took with him 

 nineteen fishes from the island in a large glass vase, and arrived at 

 Marseilles with eleven of the lot on the 15th of April, (1805, 195-313); but 

 they all died vei'ysoou after their arrival (1805, 199-358). Another lot 

 of about two hundred fislies, sent at nearly the same time, was still less 



* Notwithstanding the di.icrepancies noted, tlie two acconnts have reference appar- 

 eutly to the same lot. 



