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Working hard and enthusiastically in the 

 cause of the improvement of fisheries are 

 several French scientific gentlemen, to whom 

 the highest possible praise should be accorded 

 by the English people. Need I mention the 

 name of M. Coste, who having arranged a 

 system for the artificial propagation of both 

 marine and fresh-water fish (see his reports 

 arid publications) is, as it were, the father 

 of pisciculture ; and of that liberal-minded 

 man, Mr. Coumes, the engineer of Huningue, 

 who has so liberally distributed so many thou- 

 sand eggs of fish throughout Her Majesty's 

 dominions during the last season, and to 

 whom we owe the greatest acknowledg- 

 ments, as well as to the French Government, 

 which makes distributions of the eggs of the 

 best kinds of fish gratuitously to all the pro- 



