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come more numerous and of wider scope, was merged in the 
side issue of the “parr question,” which absorbed attention, 
as indicated by an important article in Brackwoop of that 
year upon the “ Transmutations of the Salmon.” 
The first person in France who seriously called general at- 
tention to the study and practice of artificially stocking the 
waters was Baron de Riviere. He urged the peculiar advan- 
tages obtained by leading the young eels from estuaries up 
artificial streams, and capturing them, to distribute in con- 
venient proportions throughout the waters of France. 
In the history of modern pisciculture a little event occurred 
without noise in 1844, in the Department of the Vosges, which 
gave rise a few years later to much excitement. 
A fisherman of La Dresse,in the commune of Remiremont, 
situated in one of the most elevated parts of the canton of 
Saulxures—Joseph Rémy by name—having seen the trout, 
at other times numerous in the streams of the mountains, di- 
minishing so fast as to produce grave prejudice to his indus- 
try, the rivers and the brooks in the Vosges having been 
dried up by a long drought in 1842, sought from Nature a 
remedy. This humble man, endowed with a spirit of obser- 
vation, studied with intelligence the habits of the trout from 
the moment of hatching, until he arrived at the idea of artifi- 
cial fecundation, and, by numerous experiments, finally suc- 
ceeded in arranging the hatching apparatus into compart- 
ments, as it is done at this day, though commencing, like 
Jacobi, by placing the fecundated ova in a trough, with 
wire-grating cover and ends in the trout-stream, letting the 
of the stream hatch the eggs, which were 
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natural running 
slightly covered with gravel in the trough. 
Rémy, chagrined at not knowing any person with means 
from whom he might hope for assistance by communicating 
his discoveries, became melancholy and fell sick, when he 
confided his secret to the keeper of the little tavern where 
he boarded, by name Antoine Géhin. This inn-keeper was 
to him a collaboruteur, and soon became full of zeal both as 
