APPENDIX. 



I append the following review of Dr. Bach- 

 man's paper, principally for the purpose of guard- 

 ing persons from making experiments in that 

 loose and uncertain manner detailed in the Dr's. 

 paper. However well it may have succeeded with 

 him. I am sure it would fail with me in every 

 instance. 



REVIEW OF DR. BACHMAN'S EXPERIMENTS. 



LURLIE BERG, near Cleveland. 

 March 10th, 1856. 



EDITOR OHIO FARMER Dear Sir: In looking over 

 the January No., of the Southern Cultivator, I 

 find that the editor claims for the Rev. JOHX 

 BACHMAN, D. D. of Charleston, S. C., the credit of 

 successfully hreeding fish, from artificially im- 

 pregnated eggs, more than half a century ago. 

 The editor draws his conclusions from a paper 

 read by Dr. Bachman, before the State Agricul- 

 tural Society, of South Carolina, at Columbia, in 

 1855. In an editorial note, he calls my attention 

 to Dr. Bachman's experiments, for the> purpose 

 of correcting an erroneous impression that he 



