Pisciculture. 



received a pension from the Government of 

 200 dollars per annum, and the former was 

 granted a small monopoly in the sale of 

 tobacco. 



The question was warmly taken up by M. 

 Coste, Professor of Embryology at the College 

 de France, who contributed greatly, by his 

 labours and researches, to place the science 

 of pisciculture in the position to which it has 

 since attained. In England, the importance 

 of the subject has also been warmly advocated 

 by Mr. Prank Buckland, Mr. Erancis, and 

 some other ardent pisciculturists, and at 

 Stormontfield, on the Tay, an extensive 

 salmon-rearing establishment has been erected. 

 At G-alway, the Messrs. Ashworth have 

 stocked with salmon some large rivers and 

 lakes extremely well suited to this fisb, but 

 which they had been prevented, by a natural 

 barrier, from reaching in their ascent from 

 the sea. At Huningue, in Alsace-Lorraine, a 

 very extensive fish-rearing establishment has 

 been in existence for many years, from which 

 hundreds of thousands of fish were distributed 

 annually to stock the Erench rivers and lakes. 

 The work is still continued by the Govern- 



