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the artificial fecundation project, and founded the most bril- 
hant hopes of the new art of piseteulture. 
The information of Quatrefuges’ lecture reached Epinal, 
and was seen by the Society of Emulation in the Vosges 
about four months after it was delivered. On the 2d of 
March, 1849, the secretary of the society wrote to JZ de Qua- 
trefages that two fishermen of La Bresse had been engaged 
since 1844 at stocking the waters of the Vosges with trout 
produced by artificial fecundation. 
All at once, loud became the acclamation in favor of Rémy 
and Géhin, as if the echo had gained strength by the years 
in which the truth had lain dormant. Next an English en- 
gineer, M. Gottleib Boccius, announced the great advantage 
which the inhabitants of the Vosges had derived from re- 
peopling their rivers by the aid of artificial fecundation, and 
hatching fishes in boxes where they were secure from nu- 
merous enemies of both water and air. He had published a 
small treatise in 1841 with the object of benefiting landed 
proprietors in stocking their waters, and more especially their 
artificial fish-ponds. But the French philosophers regarded 
the discovery in a national aspect. Hence one of the savants 
most illustrious, M. Dumas, who was minister of Agriculture 
and Commerce, charged the most authoritative naturalist, M. 
Milne Edwards, to examine and give an opinion upon the di- 
vers essays published in England, Germany, and France upon 
the subject of stocking fluvial waters with fish. 
On the 26th of August, 1850, M. Milne Edwards addressed 
a report to the minister, in which he reviewed the work of 
Jacobi, and noticed the success of Rémy and Géhin with 
marked commendation for their perseverance in perfecting 
fish-culture, whereby they had restocked the streams of the 
canton, besides having discovered a new industry for France. 
He also named a dozen important rivers and lakes which 
they had restocked with trout, concluding with impressively 
recommending them to government favor. He said they had 
done more than to stock the waters with trout, for they had 
