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new branch of industry in France—an encomium which they thor- 
oughly deserved, [Haxo: Reflexions sur l’Ichthyogenie, ou 
des ceufs des poissons l’eclosion Epinal: Impremerie de Cabane, 1851. 
1zmo. German edition, Leipzig, Spamer, 1855. MILNE EDWARDS, A. : 
Annales des Sciences, Naturelles, Paris. 3d series. XIV., 1850, p. 53. 
MILLET: op. cit., p. 129. HAIME: op. cit. Annales de la Societe 
d’Emulation des Vosges. V., 1844, p. 301.] 
XV. 1842—Begennings of Fish Culture in Switzerland—A decree of 
the Swiss Government, issued in 1842, gave complete instructions to 
fishermen upon the method of artificially propagating fish. [VocrT: 
—, HAIME: Revue des Deux Mondes, 1854.] As early as 1784 Spallan- 
zani, Prevost of Geneva, who had been one of the first to recognize 
the value of the discovery of Jacobi, published a treatise ‘‘On the Arti- , 
ficial Propagation of Animals and the Nature of Hermaphrodites,” in 
which he detailed the results of experiments made by himself. [Bos- 
GREN, 186.] In 1857 was founded the establishment at Zurich, soon 
followed by many others. [BOUCHON BRANDELEY, Rep. U.S. F. C., 
Part II., p. 575.] 
XVI. 1848—Revival of Interest in Fesh Culture Among the French.— 
In 1848 was published the celebrated memoir of Quatrefages upon 
* Artificial Fertilization in Fish Culture,” to the influence of which 
Haime and other French writers attribute the new interest in fish cul- 
ture, which was for several years quite absorbing, which resulted in 
many improvements in the art, and to which, indeed, may be directly 
attributed the general revival of interest on the subject, which soon 
spread to America and elsewhere, and which has not since abated. 
[QUATREFAGES, A. DE: Des fecondations artificielles appliques a 
l’eleve de poissons. Comptes Rendus of the Academy of Sciences of 
Paris. XXVII., 1848, pp. 413-416. Revue des Deux Mondes, Jan: 1, 
1849. | 
XVII. 1850—Lucouragement of Fish Culture by the French Govern- 
ment.—In 1850, Prof. Alphonse Milne Edwards, Dean of the Faculty of 
Sciences of Paris, was instructed by the French Minister of Agricul- 
ture to ascertain the value of the facts recently published concerning 
fish culture. He visited England, and also the establishment of Remy 
and his associate in the Vosges, and published a report, in which he 
recounted that the Government takes measures to stock the streams 
of France with fish. 
In 1850 was established at Huningen, in Alsace, the first fish breed- 
ing station, or “ piscifactory,’ as it was named by Prof. Coste. The 
year 1850 should be memorable in the annals of fish culture, since it 
marks the initiation of public fish culture. To the establishment at 
