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stocking the streams of Mr. Drummond, in the vicinity 

 of Uxbridge, and he estimated the number of trout 

 he produced and brought up there at 120,000. In 

 succeeding years he practised the same process on 

 the estate of the Duke of Devonshire, at Chatsworth, 

 of Mr. Gurnie at Carsalton, and of Mr. Hibberts at 

 Ghatfort.* 



Just about this time, Mr. Kemy, a fisherman of 

 Bresse, an illiterate man, and consequently ignorant 

 that science was already possessed of the discovery 

 of artificial fecundation, "the application of which had 

 already produced considerable results ; this fisher- 

 man, I repeat, seeking a remedy for the decay of his 

 branch of industry, passed many years of his life in 

 one of the most secluded valleys of the mountains of 

 Vosges, in reproducing the experiments already made 

 by so many celebrated physiologists that the long list 

 of their names need not here be recapitulated, and 

 discovering what naturalists had already known for 

 more than a century. Endowed by nature with a re- 

 markable faculty of observation, and with that per- 

 severance that no obstacle discourages, he succeeded 

 in his enterprise. His process of artificial fecunda- 

 tion does not di£fer from the one described in the 

 memoir published by the Count de Goldstein, dis- 

 covered by Jacobi, employed by all physiologists, by 

 Boccius — ^for there could not be two modes of operat- 

 ing, though his hatching boxes are not so rationally 



*Boeoiu8, Fish in Rivers and Btreamt, London, 1848. 



