Garden for the Acclimation of Animals. 
; Oysters: resupplying the oyster banks of France-—The trade in re ys 
“In France has so declined that unless there is some speedy remedy, it will _ 
soon entirely cease. Out of 23 banks of oysters which have been in suc~ 
cessful exploration on the coast of Rochelle, 18 have been completely 
ruined, and the others injured, by the invasion of muscles. The same is 
true of other beds along the Atlantic and Mediterranean shores. The ; 
French government proposes to undertake the resupplying of the beds, 
and we cite the following from the Report on the subject by the Zoologi- 
cal Section of the Academy of Sciences 
letting down over the beds a frame work made of branches stripped o 
_ their bark, and spread out, flat so as to be no obstacle to navigation. The 
drag. This transfer should be 
The dragging for oysters in France usually begins in the month of 
ei 3 zi saa i to make February or March the 
rmined on any course of action ; but ‘# 
Report general publicity, in orde 
