44 FISH CULTURAL ASSOCIATION. 
to the next General Court such facts respecting the artificial propaga- 
tion of fish as may tend to show the practicability and expediency of 
introducing the same into the Commonwealth, under the protection of 
law.’ Capt. N. E. Atwood, one of the commissioners, experimented 
with the trout and succeeded in fecundating, though not in hatching, 
their eggs. He also made observations upon the breeding of mack- 
erel, having in contemplation their artificial propagation. The com- 
mittee published a report giving a resume of past progress in fish 
culture, and a translation of Jules Haime’s famous essay in the Revue 
des Deux Mondes. Public opinion was not, at this time, quite ripe for 
the substantial encouragement of fish culture, and it was not until 1865 
that Massachusetts established its fish commission upon the present 
basis. [MASSACHUSETTS: Report of Commissioners appointed under 
resolve of 1856, etc., 1857, p, 54.] 
XXV. 1856—Descovery of the Russtan Method of Dry Impregnatton.— 
Mr. V. P. Vrasski, a Russian fish culturist, discovered, in 1856, the dry 
method of impregnation, not publishing his results, however, until 
1871. The same or a similar method was described by Carl Vogt as 
early as 1857. [MILNER: op. cit., p. 540.] 
XXVI. 1857—Early Action of the States of Vermont and New Hamp- 
shzve—\n October, 1857, a report on the artificial propagation of fish 
was made to the General Assembly of Vermont by Mr. George P. 
Marsh. At almost the same time a similar report was made to the 
Legislature of New Hampshire by Mr. A. H. Robinson. These had an 
undoubted effect on public opinion, and led to the efforts at restoring 
the salmon streams which shortly followed. [VERMONT: Report 
made under authority of the Legislature of Vermont on the artificial 
propagation of fish, by George P. Marsh, Burlington, 1857, 8vo. p. 52, 
appendix.| 
XXVII. 1857—Fzrst Attempt at Propagation of Whitefish—In No- 
vember, 1857, Mr. Carl Muller, of New York, and Henry Brown, of 
New Haven, obtained whitefish eggs, in Lake Ontario, impregnated 
them, and transported 1,000,000 to Lake Saltonstall, near New Haven. 
In 1858 the experiment was repeated. No results are reported. [Re- 
port U.S. F.C., II., pp. 534-545. Report of Commissioner of Patents 
for 1859, 1860, p. 227.| 
XXVIII. 1857—Frrst Attempt at Propagation of Lake Trout.——In the 
same manner, in 1857 and 1858, Messrs. Muller and Brown transported 
several millions of lake trout eggs. No results are reported. [Report 
Uses FG. I. ic.] 
XXIX. 1857—Ferst Attempt at Propagation of Pike-Perch—In May, 
1857, Messrs. Muller and Brown obtained fertilized eggs of pike-perch, 
