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art. In fact, tlie doctor, who is reinembered by his friends and acquaint- 

 ances as a man of amiable qualities and modesty of disposition, makes 

 no claim to having published any account of the matter prior to 1855, 

 two 3'ears after Doctors Garlick and Ackley had begun their work. 



An account was first given by Doctor Garlick, i^ the Ohio Farmer, of 

 the methods of trout-breeding employed by himself and Doctor Ackley 

 within two or three years after beginning their experiments; and in 

 1857 these papers were reproduced as a manual,* which has had a wide 

 circulation. Their experiments with the trout, as also those of S. H. 

 Ainsworth in 1859, were of the utmost importance in initiating the 

 interest in pisciculture in the United States. 



Seth Green began the famous establishment near Eochester, ]N". Y., 

 in 18G4, and from the first exhibited especial capacity and genius for 

 the art. More than those of any other person in the United States, his 

 labors have popularized the subject and extended the new industry 

 throughout America, at the same time greatly improving and perfecting 

 methods of work. In 1870, he published in connection with Mr. A. S. 

 Collins, a manual of trout-culture,t which is still in demand. 



In 18G7, Dr. J. H. Slack purchased the establishment at Bloomsbury^ 

 X J., founded by Thaddeus ISTorris, author of a work on fish-culture,t and 

 who as far back as 1865, in his book on angling,§ devotes a chapter to 

 fish-breeding. 



Doctor Slack built up a successful establishment in a few years, and in 

 1872 published a manual || on trout-culture, which contained the most 

 correct history of the prosecution of the art in the United States that 

 had been written, and a list of the works in the French and English 

 languages, relating directly to i)ractical fish-culture. His knowledge of 



* A Treatise on the Artificial Propagation of Certain Kinds of Fisb, with the descri ptiou 

 and habits of such kinds as are the most suitable for pisciculture, by Theodatus Gar- 

 lick, M. D., vice-president of the Cleveland Academy of Natural Science, giving the 

 author's first experiments contained in a paper read before the Cleveland Academy of 

 Natural Science; also directions for the most successful modes of angling for such kinds 

 of fish as are herein described. Cleveland, Thomas Brown, publisher, 1857. 



+ Trout-Cultare, by Seth Green, published by Seth Green and A. S. Collins, Caledonia? 

 N. Y. Rochester, N. Y., 1870. 



± American Fish Culture, embracing all the details of artificial breeding and rearing 

 of trout, the culture of salmon, shad, and other fishes, with illustrations. New York ; 

 12 mo., 1R69, 



§ The American Angler's Book, embracing the natural history of sporting fish and 

 the art of taking them, with instructions in fiy-fishing, lly-makiug, and I'od-making ; 

 and directions for fish-breeding, to which is added Dies Piscatoria^, describing noted 

 fishing-places and the pleasure of solitary fly-fishing. New edition, with a supplement 

 containing descriptions of salmon rivers, inland trout fishing, &c., &c. By Thaddeus 

 Norris. Illusti'ated with eighty engravings on wood. Philadelphia, E. H. Butler & Co.? 

 London, Sampson, Low, Son & Co., 1865. 



I! Practical Trout-Culture, by J. H. Slack, M. D., commissioner of fisheries of New 

 Jersey; natural history editor of " Turf, Field, and Farm," New York; proprietor of 

 Troutdale Pond, near Bloomsbury, N. J. " We speak that we dp know and testify 

 hat we have seen." New York; George E. Woodward; Orange Judd & Co. 5 245 

 Broadway, 1872. 



