Salmon at the Antipodes. 



that a discovery has been made simultaneously 

 by two inquirers, who have arrived at the 

 result by totally different methods. In 1848 

 the celebrated French naturalist, M. De 

 Quatrefages, on scientific grounds, brought 

 before the Academy of Sciences at Paris the 

 subject of the artificial impregnation of fish 

 ova; and, in a paper read before that body, 

 asserted the possibility, by the artificial 

 fecundation of the ova of fishes, of propagating 

 them to any extent that might be desired. 

 His statement was at first discredited, but the 

 publication of his paper brought out the fact 

 that the process which he had advocated 

 on theoretical grounds, and from an ana- 

 tomical examination of the generative organs, 

 had actually been reduced to practice by a poor 

 fisherman of Bresse. The Academy appointed 

 a committee to inquire into the matter, which 

 found the facts to be as stated. 



In 1843 Eemy had addressed a letter to 

 the Prefect of the Yosges, of a portion of 

 which the following is a translation, taken 

 from a paper by Professor C. A. Joy, on fish 

 culture : — 



