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APPENDIX. 



I append the following review of Dr. Bach- 

 raan's paper, principally for the purpose of guard- 

 ing persons from making experiments in that 

 loose and uncertain manner detailed in the Dr's. 

 paper. However well it may have succeeded with 

 him. I am sure it would fail with me in every 

 instance. 



REVIEW OF J>R. BACHMAN'S EXPERIMENTS. 



LT'RLIE BERG, near Cleveland. 

 March 10th, 1856. 



EDITOR OHIO FARMER Dear Sir: In looking over 

 the January No., of the Southern Cultivator, I 

 find that the editor claims for the Rev. JOHN 

 BACHMAN, D. P. of Charleston, S. C., the credit of 

 successfully breeding fish, from artificially im- 

 pregnated eggs, more than half a century ago. 

 The editor draws his conclusions from a paper 

 read by Dr. Bachman, before the State Agricul- 

 tural Society, of South Carolina, at Columbia, in 

 1855. In an editorial note, he calls my attention 

 to Dr. Bachman's experiments, for the purpose 

 of correcting an erroneous impression that he 



