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a faulty ob ti ply , others endea- | ho vever, been recently revived by some ethnologists, "Ihe egg thus manipulated is placed for a 1 
lt plain it by i tl LONE of thein | and especially by the President of the Ethnological | days under a h en! Bei cing m the shell is а 
hich tried t count for the phenomenon | Society, Mr. Е Crawfurd, in a series of papers read | and the contents are pla сей in ssel of water warned 
by g 1 1 hydrogen, found | before that iety. His arguments however и by the heat of the sun jar the eggs speedily burst, 
much favour. At pre esent, чин. s hypothesis has exclusively to Man, and they a are vd efore Баз ed not во | | and in ^ short time the young ; fish are able to be transe 
become untenable, the нау о Ө the plant is | much on to а river or lake of ordinary cpi 
mentioned more as a curiosum, and accounted for by | immutability of races when € modified by hybridism, Hest 'expolites the birth of the fish. sofa 
the presence of etheric oil in the етө, Being in | оп the presumed distinctness of type in languages, and minnow һауе been sensibly тее towards йе 
the habit of visiting а garden in which strong healthy | other questions of fact ipe r which ethnologists are by z — held on the palm of the hand. Тһе spawn of 
plants of Dictamnus albus were cultivated, I oft е lo bster has the adraia age of being nursed on the 
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and I already began to doubt the correctness of the | creation of one common stock for each specie s now oes life. Salmon eggs deposited early in the season, 
observation made by the daughter of Linnæus, when, | existing on the zlo be, has been at n times the va when the temperature 18 high, come sooner to life than 
during the dry and hot summer of 1857, I repeated hut generally received, асса Өй, vus taught by | those spawned € mid-winter: indeed there is а differ- 
the experiment once more, fancying that the warm | authority. It as be een supporte ed by o — во | епсе of as much as 50 days between those deposited 
weather might possibly have exercised a more tl y when n September and those spawned in December, the 
ordinary -effect upon the plant. І held ч lighted | assailed, it has only been. thought requiring 90 days, the other 140 days to ripen 
match close to ап open ower, again Е ebd any theories that may hav io -bbe en raised it іі lite. Salmon have been brought to л life in 
without result; in brin inging, Soa ver, the match cse eee toit. This was an easy task ade ng asthose | 60 days at Huninque; but the quickest hatching nd 
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nearly faded one, and sud ШУ. was Seen ат reddish, me "that the plausible application of "adea p 120 days. The ancient Romans, taking a leaf out of the 
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aromatic smell, and did not injure the peduncle. Si the way of fish-breeding, and were able to perform 
hen I have repeated the exp l | tt f tl | curious experiments with the piscine inhabitants of 
seasons, and, even during wet, cold summe TS, „it h less maintain A um and origi al|t A classic friend, who is well read in 
always succeeded, дорх clearly proving that 16 is поё | елей of existing species. cient fish-lore, tells us that the great Roman 
influenced by the state of the weat the er. in doing во o I « The third hypothesis, аб the present n" are | epieures could run the ir fish fr rom icy cold water 
observed the follo al results, f li process of Lueullus 
phenomenon. n the pedicels and Is йк ин ате а gradual. variation, was generally табын аз un idle| at опе time sold his wie = fish for the sum of 
` number of minute reddish-brown glands, g and, whenever brought forward, only 35,0007. ; but that would most ped be a fancy price, 
etheric oil. These glands are but little developed br oac) Фей to = РЗ ost unanimously rejected, until tl se he would be in possession of unique varieties, 
when the flowers begin to open, and they are fully | publication of Mr. Darwin's * Origin L^ papel This derived from curious crosses s, бо, These ancient lovers 
grown shortly after the blossoms begin to fade, | remarkable work has carried more or les icti f бз] m 
shrivelling up when the fruit begins to form. For m such minds as those of Lyell, ж "a Gray, А. entlemen in the s day lave роб breeds of 
his; .reason ; the experiment can succeed only at|.DeCandolle and others whose previous arguments | dine or pta cattle. Red mullet or fat carp, which 
that limited period when the flowers are fading. Best | pointed towards a contrary direction; it has met with | sold for large prices, were not ab all unusual. One 
adapted od x Dose are those гасни Но have | the most cordial adoption on the part of many eminent noble MA ent to a fabulous expense in borin, 
done flow he base, Ma still have a few | шеп n ipe по! committed themselves, and has | tunnel through a бернин in order that he 
blossoms at ы Г The same panicle senio be ted i arg igh i ater 
seed iwice, Тһе rachis is ЧЕНЕ by the expe- doubts as = ас Pm firmest convictions. This|for his fish onds. Sergius  Orata invented 
i ; being € green to take fir me effected rather by the extreme simplicity of | artificial oyster-beds. Не caused to be constructed 
ong а] sb a qu as lightning, be- the new principle applied to phenomena previously | at Baim, on the Ілсгіпе Sena, great reservoirs, 
i t the top and diffusing а power- observed, but little attended to, and now first placed in where he grew the dainty mollusk in thousands; and, 
ful eher smell." uxtaposition, than by the discovery of any remarkable | in order that he and bis friends might have this 
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"In Би Че Рамиро A H3. Linnan ditary diversities in айо tht ns well as in lest in | bui гуйв = the coast, Е order hi 
Society, iin eq M has lately appeared, will be found | tion denke i ee from tl 
the addre anco aient Desde 
Anniversai са зеен which we venture to denomi- 
nate a model for such ОШТОН. We can only find 
diam the hi one ехітасі—а rather Г, опе, x: not longer | „ 
state «nl business, The French are now repeopling their 
oyster-beds, which а few years ago be ecame exhausted 
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Helena Trochetias "whieh are now of a legitimate hypothesis? тан Veri 
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red from the life "during tbe short time tiom as д, cn by J. S. Mill in his excellent pem on 
who renes at the T of the ] process, mes fis, rerum 
w their own spat, and breed countless quantities of 
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as "in present state of our еде» Du and we | besides a great number of new ones. The French also 
must, I think, cordially agree with the same distin. | cultivate their mussels å in the same way; and, as these 
exsinetion, or by sudden convulsions, belongs more to guished Лорі an, аб he has “op ened 9 p of used as bait by our fishermen, they ` 
; the Жен y^ 6 bradi ought "lesson in mussel cultivation out of 
fr рей, "The discussion as to whether the majority | | 
of any one species we һауе no human record, and, a im MASSA aud that А E L sender feat of изгра cm the bend "bf and our neighbours across the 
-— as БА i are concerned, we must rely мнау оне йрке бадї o have rendered во bold а | Сһаппе!, it js сег tain, contrive to make their mussel- 
ботев ial evidence. suggestion, which. [^ "in ede of every one was to | beds " remunerative.. Similar beds could easily be 
хее ата hypotheses are now more or less |, once, admissible and discussible even аз a | Constructed in our English and Scottish bays, and, with 
ind eni pta Sr " the demand for bait and the facilities of sale afforded 
-— That ite "individuals нуі living have descended y cons ieation, there 
common stocks The oyster- 1 
able seriei A a RA or areas of dis isper- Kent and Essex are cultivated like these mussel-beds, 
sion, these common stocks being the pe of special ктүү өртү" and they prove very remunerative, We һауе often 
өйө either simultaneous or consecuti Fish Breeding.—lf we wish to take lessons in the | wondered f terprising fisher с1авз h 
gE I заб the whole of the indivi duals 1 ging i fish RET d we must visit China, The commenced the breeding of lobsters. We require, it is 
1 Aa of the Celestial E ‚000 lobsters every day, and could use double 
q^] ire. ^ escended from one и ereated the RAD "n h-breeding to such an extent as to be the number if we had them-—thus affording a fine 
which they have nitas. ams о keep up a constant supply of those particular fishes chance for enterprise. No lobsters have been bred in 
to пе, iore es of the world they now which inhabit their seas and rivers, so that any quan- onds н Даш пеаг à om ; the are 
3. Tha he races now oceupyi ng t 2 are | tity o of this kind ы wy can о A. all over the | simply use storing pla 
Арк at the rate of abou ne weight ! | | be br " on the ково и Frazer's Mag 
which preceded them, by a gradual pro be delight \ Нег s Oa. k.— ublie attention has poet. very sl 
нене and extinction, ard e [е бексе preat Зов во much astonis | di old trunk of : 
hang epit still more or leag dotis ely in opera! as the p AM was cha tis p a nA poe М at | gich has lately нее Wn... \ z 
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