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as a Christian gentleman is too well known and 

 recognized for us for a moment to doubt his 

 veracity. Though his opinions upon religion, 

 politics, and natural history may have met with 

 many opponents, his truthfulness, save in this 

 one* case, has never been impeached. 



That Dr. Bachman, at the age of sixty -five, 

 should willfully and maliciously prepare and 

 publish a series of falsehoods, is an opinion not 

 for one moment to be entertained. The length 

 of time which elapsed between the experiments 

 and the publication of the paper in which they 

 are described, has been urged as an argument 

 against the possibility of their having been per- 

 formed. This is readily answered by the fact 

 that Dr. Bachman makes no claim to the inven- 

 tion of the process. A full account of Jacobi'a 

 experiments and their result was published in 

 1773 in Duhamel du Monceau's "Traite general 

 des Peches," a work to which young Bachman 

 had, most probably, access. And we therefore 

 see in this school-boy experiment the early dawn- 

 ing of that love for scientific research which in 

 riper years rendered him famous. 



Between the years 1804 and 1844, experimental 

 pisciculture was frequently practiced both by. 



* Garlick's "Fish Culture," 1858, p. 135. 



