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combined as the artificial rivulets of the Count de 

 Groldsteia ; rivulets which, notwithstanding their 

 superiority to the boxes of Messrs. Gehin and Eemy, 

 have still inconveniences which I have overcome by 

 substituting wicker hurdles or baskets. 



But, as Mr. Milne Edwards has already stated in 

 his remarkable report, if scientific men have preceded 

 Mr. Remy in his researches, and if he has not enriched 

 natural history with new facts, he is not the less 

 worthy of our interest, and we owe to him our thanks, 

 for he was the first in our country to couple the 

 process of artificial fecundation with the preservation 

 of the brood ; a combination which, considering the 

 isolated scene of his labors, had, for him, all the 

 merit of a real invention. His first essays, Mr. Gehin 

 having subsequently been associated with him, were 

 made in 1842.* 



Notwithstanding the invention having been laid 



*The government wishing to make to theae two fishermen 

 a proper acknowledgment, granted to Mr. Remy a tobacco factory, 

 and at the instance of the commission (of which I was a member 

 with Messrs. de Suzanne, de Bon, de Franqueville, Mauny, de 

 Mornay, Doyfere, and my two brother academicians, Milne 

 Edwards and Valenciennes) an annual pension of 1,500 francs from 

 the budget of the Minister of the Intei'ior: and to Mr. Gehin a 

 tobacco factory at Strasburg, an annual pension of 500 francs, 

 a gift of 1,200 france, 10 francs a day for travelling expenses 

 while in his department, and 2^ francs per myriameter out of his 

 department. M. Hnertier, Councillor of State, Director General 

 of Agriculture and Commerce, who gives his powerful and intelli- 

 gent cooperation to the organization of fish culture in France, has 

 graciously and warmly responded to these views of the commis- 

 sion. 



