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add that the charge of such work would be the 

 least recompense the government could make them. 

 For the rest such an enterprise would neces- 

 sitate serious preliminary studies, and give rise 

 to several questions, for whose solution the opin- 

 ion of the administration of waters and forests 

 would be necessary, as well as the light of natu- 

 ralists, and it would perhaps be necessary to have 

 a mixed commission. To sum up — we perceive 

 that the stocking of fresh waters with artificial 

 methods was long since thought of, but it was 

 only tried in France lately: that Messrs. Gehin 

 & Kemy appear to have been the first to put 

 the method in practice among us, and that for 

 their part they have arrived at results analagous 

 to those obtained at the same period in England 

 by Mr. Boccius : that the labors of these two 

 fishermen are worthy of attention, and that in 

 applying to the reproduction of salmon the means 

 they have successfully used to rear trout, we 

 shall be enabled largely to increase the interests 

 . of our river fisheries. 



I have the honor, &c. 



MILNE-EDWARDS. 



