HUNINGUE. 



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been effectually accomplished by M. Coumes, the engineer of 

 this department of the Eliine, who, in conjunction with 

 Professor Coste, planned the buildings at Huningue ; indeed 

 the machinery of all kinds is as nearly as possible perfect. 



BASINS FOll THE YOUNG FISH. 



The course of business at Huningue is as follows : The 

 eggs are brought chiefly from Switzerland and Germany, and 

 embrace those of the various kinds of trout, the Danube and 

 Rhine salmon, and the tender ombre chevalier. People are 

 appointed to capture gravid fish of these various kinds, and 

 having done so to communicate with the authorities at 

 Huningue, who at once send an expert to deprive the fishes 

 of their spawn and bring it to the breeding or store boxes, 

 where it is carefully tended and daily watched till it is ready 

 to be despatched to some district in want of it. The mode of 

 artificial spawning is as follows, and I will suppose the 



