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THE ORIGIN OF ARTIFICIAL FJSH CULTURE IN THE 

 UNITED STATES. 



By E. D, Potter. 



I had intended on tliis occasion to speak upon the sub- 

 ject of propagating the different kinds of iishes with which 

 I have had some experience, and the earlier and the im- 

 proved methods which from time to time have been adopted 

 in bringing that art to the perfection which it has attained ; 

 but, unfortunately, at Christmas I was attacked with that 

 malady which has held so many in its '"Grippe" in the Ohl 

 as well as in the New World, disqualifying them for labor 

 in the ordinary avocations of life. I have suffered from 

 its effects for the last four months, most of the time con- 

 fined to my house. 



I offer this as an apology for not carrying out my 

 original intentions. However, as but few persons now 

 living, beside myself, since the death of the lamented Dr. 

 Garlick, who were ]3resent at the birth of the first lish 

 artificially produced in America, it might be interesting to 

 some of the gentlemen of this Society to hear some 

 account of the lirst fish artificially propagated upon this 

 continent. 



In the winter of 1858 an account was published in the 

 National Intelligencer, of Washington, of the experiments 

 of two unlettered fishermen, Gehin and Remy, of the 

 Yosgen mountains, in Lorraine, then a province of France, 

 in which they had succeeded in the incubation and hatch- 

 ing of a great number of the fishes of that region. This 

 account fell under the notice of Dr. Theodatus Garlick, of 

 Cleveland, who at once entered into the scheme of making 

 experiments in the artificial propagation of the brook- 

 trout. {Salmo fontinalis.) A few miles from Cleveland 

 was a deep ravine through which passed a small, cold 

 stream, fed by several cold springs issuing from the adja- 



