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of Natural Science, Feb. 17, 1854, we learn that some of the 

 first eggs with which he experimented, were obtained by 

 him in 1853 from Port Stanley, in Canada. 

 Nettle, like Garlick, was an 

 extremely modest man, and 

 were it not for the protests 

 of his friends, who were 

 acquainted with the facts 

 of his fish-cultural work, 

 the fame, which is justly 

 his, would have gone to 

 others. Wilmot developed 

 and did much to further 

 the work of fish culture in 

 the Dominion, but Nettle 

 and not Wilmot was the 

 father of Canadian fish cul- 

 ture. Mr. Livingston Stone 

 is authority for the state- 

 ment that Seth Green was 

 the father of American 

 Fish culture, and undoubt- 

 edly he was the first "to suc- 

 ceed, in 1867, with the 

 hatching of shad. But his 

 earliest fish cultural opera- 

 tions, which were conduct- 

 ed at Caledonia, N. Y., 

 dated only from the early 

 sixties, and were conse- 

 quently subsequent to those 

 of both Garlick and Nettle 

 Nettle, in his younger 

 days, was quite a famous 

 angler. As a devotee of 

 Izaak Walton, the waters 



were few around, above Paul Tahourhenche'. 



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