Salmon at the Antipodes. 



river Bresse, in a spot where trie current was 

 only slight. Towards the middle of February 

 the eggs in the spring commenced to hatch, 

 while those in the river did not change until 

 the 20th of March. ... In hatching, the 

 young, the tails of which first appear, are white, 

 elongated, lean, with large heads. They move 

 immediately, and appear, by their action, to 

 swim with pleasure ; every day they change 

 colour, and assume the tints of the large fish ; 

 the body becomes round, and fills out. I have 

 retained a quantity of these little creatures, in 

 order to be able to reproduce them at pleasure. 

 It appears to me that a discovery of this 

 nature, especially at a time when the rivers 

 are nearly deprived of fish, in consequence of 

 the drought of last season, is worthy of the 

 attention of the Government. 



(Signed) "J. Eemt." 



Eemy was awarded a bronze medal and 

 100 francs, by a local scientific body, for his 

 discovery, which would have remained in 

 obscurity but for the paper of M. De Quatre- 

 fages, which brought the matter before the 

 whole scientific world. Kemy and Gehin 



