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abbey. The claim is a somewhat feeble one, and it is believed by many 
authorities that the practice of the French monk was simply to collect 
and transplant the eggs which he had found already naturally fertil- 
ized, thus discovering artificial breeding, but not artificial propagation. 
However interesting to the antiquarian, the proceedings of Dom Pin- 
chon had no influence upon the progress of fish culture. [MONTGAU- 
DRY: Bulletin de la Societe Zoologique d’Acclimatation, Paris, I. 1854, 
p. 80. HAIME: Revue des Deux Mondes, June, 1854, and Report U.S. 
F.C., Part IL., 1873 (pp. 465-492), p. 472 (translation.) MILNER: Report 
U.S. F. C., Part II., 1873, p. 531. MILLET: La Culture de 1’Eau, p. 128. 
HAPKE: op. cit., p. 151. MOLIN: Rationelle Zucht der Susswasser- 
fische, etc. Wien, 1864, p. 4.] 
To Germany, beyond question, belongs the honor of discovering and 
carrying into practical usefulness the art of fish culture. Upon the 
estate of Jacobi as has been seen, it was carried on asa branch of agri- 
culture for nearly eighty years—from 1741 to 1825—though it was nearly 
one hundred years before public opinion was ripe for a general accept- 
ance of its usefulness. Recognition of fish culture was finally brought 
about by the zealous advocacy of men of science in France, Scotland, 
Bohemia and Switzerland. During the interim it appears to be certain 
that at no time was the practice of fish culture from a practical stand- 
point entirely abandoned by citizens of Germany. 
Il. 1763—Announcement of the Discovery of Fish Culture.—In 1763 
some anonymous contributor to the Hanoverian Magazine published 
a description of the methods employed by Jacobi in the artificial cul- 
ture of trout and salmon. [{Hannoversche Magazin, 1763, Erster jahr- 
gang, p. 363.] -On the 5th of August, 1765, Jacobi himself, in the same 
periodical, recounted the story of his experiments and their results. 
(HAPKE: op. cit., p. 160. HAIME: op. cit., p. 474. M1LNER: op. cit. p. 
531. MILLER: op. cit.,p. 127. BLocH: Hannoverschen Magazin, 1782, 
pp. 337-300. KRUNITZ: Encyklopadie, 1778, p. 456. MEzLER: Land- 
wirthschaft’s Kalender, Stuttgart, 1771, p. 72.] 
Ill. 1764—J/udorsemeni of Fish Culture by the Savans of Germany.— 
In 1764, in the year after the announcement by Jacobi of the results of 
his experiments, Dr. J. G. Gleditsch, a renowned botanist, presented to 
the Berlin Academy of Sciences a communication, in which he pointed 
out the importance of the new discovery. [GLEDITSCH: Denkschriften. 
der Koniglichen Akademie zu Berlin, xx. (1764), 1766, p. 47.] 
IV. 1770—furst French Publication of a Treatise on Fish Culture.— 
In 1770 the memoir of Jacobi was published in Paris in an abridgment 
of the Memoirs of the Academy of Berlin. [Memoires de l’Academie 
Royale de Prusse, etc.] In Duhamel Dumonceau’s “General Treatise 
