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NEW METHOD OF POND CULTURE. 



BY DR. JOUSSET DE BELLESME. 



(TRANSLATKD BY DR. TARLETON H. BKAN, DIRECTOR OF THE NEW YORK 



AQUARIUM, BY PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR, AND READ AT THE 



25TH ANNUAL MEETING OF AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY.) 



[At the solicitation of Count de Briey, President of 

 the Central Society for the Protection of Fresh Water 

 Fisheries of Belgium, M. de Bruyn, Minister of Agri- 

 culture, requested Doctor Jousset de Bellesme, Director 

 of Fish Culture of Paris, to deliver a lecture on pond 

 culture at the Exposition of Fisheries and Fish Cul- 

 ture at Antwerp in 1894. That lecture was published 

 in the journal of the Belgian Society mentioned, in 

 January, February, and March, 1895. 



Dr. Jousset de Bellesme had previousl}' published 

 a brief account of his new method of pond culture in 

 Comptes Rendiis Acad. Sc, Paris, Nov. 26, 1894. A 

 paper upon the same subject was published in a 

 French newspaper, Le Gaztlois., by A. de Marcillac in 

 March, 1895, criticising the method proposed by Dr. 

 Jousset de Bellesme, and in Rcviic des Sciences Natiir- 

 elles Appliquees^ Paris, No. 17, December, 1895, M. 

 Jules de Guerne takes exception to the statements 

 made b}' the Director in terms unnecessarily severe ; 



* Nouvelle Methode de Culture des Etaugs, Par le Docteur Jousset de 

 Bellesme, Peche et Pisciculture, Brussels, Nos. i, 2, 3, Jan. -Mar., 1895, pp. 

 2-11,28-40,50-54. 



