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Dr. until after some one else had made the same 

 experiments over fifty years afterwards, and given 

 them to the public. 



I have read Dr. Bachman's paper carefully, 

 and I am astonished at very many of his state- 

 ments. The Dr. made his first experiments in 

 1804, when a school boy, and at the time, did 

 not know that any book had been written on 

 fish, and succeeded in hatching five or six thou- 

 sand young fish, from the ova of some fish known 

 ;is the 'Corporal,' the parent fish having been dead 

 several hours. With a commendable zeal, and an 

 ardor, rarely met with, except in youthful minds, 

 he made his next essay upon the Salmo Fontin- 

 alis, brook trout, and here his success was more 

 marvelous, than with his Corporal, for he suc- 

 ceeded in vitalizing their ova, at least one month 

 before- they were mature. We will give the Dr's. 

 own words for the benefit of those who may n<ot 

 have had the pleasure of reading his essay. 



'A cold spring, used for drinking purposes,, 

 poured its stream from the sides of an adjacent 

 hill, at the distance of about an hundred yards. 

 This we conducted to the pond in zig zag lines 

 by which the distance was increased. By dint 

 of digging, we formed shelving banks, and dam- 

 ming up the stream in some twenty places with 

 rocks, we were provided with so many ponds of 



