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or of Jacobi, having probably never heard of either of them, nor 

 even read a book on Natural History in their lives. Nothing 

 was heard of the discovery beyond the department of the Vosges, 

 before the year 1849, when Dr. Haxo, of Epinal, secretary to the 

 Societe d' Emulation, and member of the Conseil Academique 

 of the Department of the Vosges, sent a communication to the 

 Academy of Sciences at Paris, describing the method of cultivat- 

 ing fish, and it sorely puzzled many who heard it, that it should 

 have fallen to the lot of the two poor fishermen to put into 

 practice and show the value of a discovery which had been known 

 to many learned men for a long series of years. 



The subject was at once warmly taken up by the Academy, 

 who, seeing the great importance of the discovery, lost no time in 

 calling the attention of Government to it.' The Government 

 decided to carry on the process on many of the rivers of France, 

 and Gehin and Remy were sent for and employed at good 

 salaries ; and a Commission, consisting of a number of scientific 

 men, was also appointed to superintend their operations. The 

 plan adopted by these two men for the artificial cultivation of 

 trout, was to procure a number of round boxes made of zinc, 

 in shape somewhat like a cheese, and about eight inches in 

 diameter. These were riddled with small holes, and in each of 

 the boxes was placed a layer of fine gravel, and upon this the 

 eggs were laid. The boxes were then placed in the bed of a 

 stream and covered with loose pebbles, and the water was 

 allowed to percolate through them by means of the small holes. 

 The young fish on being hatched were kept in these receptacles 

 from eight to fifteen days, and then set at liberty. 



Although it was long considered that the gravelly bed of a 

 natural stream was a requisite in fish hatching, which could not 

 be substituted, an eminent French naturalist, M. Coste, Professor 

 of the College de France, at Paris, discovered that it might to 

 a certain extent be done without, and he proved his assertion 

 by producing salmon in a tub. Having procured a large tub 

 he had a number of small conduits or canals constructed in it, 

 and placed in such a position that the water flowed from one 

 to the other, and at last, when its services were no longer required, 

 escaped from the vessel altogether. In each of these vessels 



