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It was the observation of this phenomenon that suggested 

 the possibility of rearing them artificially. Examples 

 were accordingly removed, placed by themselves, and fed 

 at regular intervals with the food for which they had dis- 

 played a partiality, the upshot being that a considerable 

 number of them were reared through the several metamor- 

 phoses previously described, and until, in fact, they had 

 become fully formed ambulatory lobsters measuring about 

 one inch in length. Specimens of these little lobsters thus 

 artificially reared I have the honour to submit to you. 



It remains for me to state that the experiment, thus brought 

 to a successful issue, was accomplished in the roughest and 

 rudest manner. The little animals were merely placed, a 

 number together, in glass jars having each a capacity of 

 about one quart, the sea-water contained in them being 

 simply changed each morning. Such crude efforts on a 

 small scale being rewarded with success, it is not only pro- 

 bable but it may be maintained as a reasonable and logical 

 deduction, that the culture of young lobsters on a very 

 much larger scale, and with the aid of all those perfected 

 appliances and experiences that have been brought to bear 

 upon the hatching and rearing of Salmonidae and other 

 fishes, would be easy of achievement. The period during 

 which the young lobsters would require attention, dating 

 from the time of their exclusion from the egg until they 

 attain to the ambulatory state, is represented by an in- 

 terval of but a month or six weeks, and the amount of food 

 each individual lobster will consume in that time does not 

 exceed one or two ounces. The ambulatory state arrived 

 at, the little animal, though not exceeding an inch in length, 

 is perfectly fit to shift for itself, and, like a young trout or 

 salmon of the same size, on being consigned to the water im- 

 mediately goes to the bottom and seeks to hide itself beneath 



