3<D An Angler's Paradise. 



hatching fish ova by artificial means originated in Germany, and 

 is ascribed to a German naturalist, Count von Golstein, who is 

 said to have made the discovery in the year 1758. Having 

 obtained some ova and taken what he considered to be the 

 necessary steps for its preservation, he was rewarded, when the 

 proper time had elapsed, by seeing young fish produced. Later 

 still, about the year 1763, one Jacobi, another German naturalist, 



1 performed the same experiment, with this difference, that he 

 took his eggs from a dead fish instead of a living one ; and what 

 is more remarkable, his experiment also proved successful. 



Bertram, in his " Harvest of the Sea," says : " Jacobi, who 

 practised the art for thirty years, was not satisfied with the mere 

 discovery, but at once turned what he had discovered to practical 

 account, and in the time of Jacobi great attention was devoted 

 to pisciculture by various gentlemen of scientific eminence. . 

 The results arrived at by Jacobi were of vast importance, and 

 obtained not only the recognition of his Government, but also 

 the more solid reward of a pension." The well known Spallanzani 

 also experimented in Italy on the ova of fish, as well as upon 

 the spawn of toads ; and since then many other experiments have 

 been tried by scientists and others in various countries, but no 

 | one ever seemed to think of turning the knowledge gained to 

 1 any practical account, but merely looked on the whole affair as 

 an interesting scientific experiment. 



Although discovered in Germany by Count von Golstein 

 -and by Jacobi, the art of pisciculture became known to two 

 humble peasants named Gehin and Remy, in France, about the 

 year 1840. These two men lived in an obscure village called 

 La Bresse, in the department of the Vosges, where it was observed 

 that the supply of fish was falling off. They found out how the 

 eggs of trout were fecundated, and following up the knowledge 

 they had gained, in 1841 they succeeded in hatching their first 

 -eggs in a very rude sort of apparatus placed in the bed of a 

 stream. During the next three seasons they continued their 

 work, and in 1844 were presented with a bronze medal and a 

 sum of money by the Societe d' Emulation des Vosges, as some 

 encouragement to their praiseworthy efforts. 



These two poor men knew nothing of Count von Golstein, 



