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Working hard and enthusiastically in the 

 cause of the improvement o£ fisheries are 

 several French scientific gentlemen,, to whom, 

 the highest possible praise should be accorded 

 by the English people. Need I mention the 

 name of M. Goste, who having arranged a 

 system for the artificial propagation of both 

 marine and fresh-water fish (see his reports 

 and publications) is, as it were, the father 

 of pisciculture ; and of that liberal-minded 

 man, Mr. Coumes, the engineer of Huningue, 

 who has. sa liberally, distributed so many thou- 

 sand eggs of fish throughout Her Majesty's 

 dominions during the last season, and to 

 whom we owe the greatest acknowledg- 

 ments, as well as to the French Government, 

 which makes distributions of the eggs of the 

 best kinds of fish gratuitously to all the pro- 



