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a fisherman and piscteulturist. The names of Rémy and Gé- 
hin were destined to become indissoluble. They unveiled 
the advantages of the discovery to a few notable persons; 
but our two poor copartners met with the difficulties com- 
mon to those who discover any strange improvement by 
means of a switch from the track of Nature. In the mean 
time the inspector of primary schools in the Vosges received 
information of the discovery, and communicated it to the 
Society of Emulation. This society, being of high celebrity, 
occupied itself at once upon the question. In a report by 
M. Sarrazin on the recompenses accorded to agriculture and 
industry by the Society of Emulation, the proceedings of 
Rémy and Géhin were described. M. Micard, General Guard 
of the Forests, had favored the early efforts of Rémy, and 
gave him in spawning-time the liberty of the brooks of the 
forests. 
In spite of the memoir of John Shaw—malgré the results 
which were vauntingly promised to England—malgré the 
fortunate experiments of Rémy and Géhin, encouraged by 
the Society of Emulation for the Vosges, all slept again. 
The interest in the success of those men, whose ardor and 
industry greatly multiplied the number of fishes, lasted no 
longer than the transient sound of the murmurs of the rivers 
and brooks which had proved the theatre of their exploits. 
But on the 23d of October, 1848, M. de Quatrefages, in pur- 
suit of the development of certain animals, fished up the com- 
munication of Count Goldstein, and read at the deademie des 
Sciences a memoir demonstrative of artificial fecundation be- 
ing the means for obviating the causes of destruction to the 
eggs of fishes. 
The lecture of M. de Quatrefages at the Academy of Sci- 
ences was published by numerous journals, which projected 
the subject into the air of public favor, and the assurance of 
the lecturer that a pursuit of the subject would be the birth 
of a new industry important to the world, decided the com- 
mencement of action. All the avorld was at once going into 
