42 THE NEW AET OF BRKBDINe FISH. 



science, the teaching of which has been confided to 

 me, and with which are connected the highest and 

 grandest questions of natural philosophy ; a science 

 of which, thanks to the friendship of M. Guizot, I 

 have had the rare honor of being called to fill the first 

 established professorship. 



It is not to be doubted, that in this discovery 

 Germany and England have preceded France, but it 

 is also true, that to our country belongs the honor of 

 establishing its wide-spread popularity and European 

 credit. 



Since the day when the results of Mr. Eemy's ex- 

 periments were vouched for by the official report of 

 Mr. Milne Edwards, and that, upon my proposition, 

 it was decided that a model establishment should he 

 founded near Huningen, under the auspices of the 

 government and the direction of Messrs. Berthot and 

 Detzem, Engineers of the Ehone and Rhine Canal ; 

 since, too, people have seen in course of construction 

 in my laboratory, the hatching apparatus which I 

 designed for it; the public mind has been justly 

 alive to a project touching in so high a degree the 

 interests of society, and constant appeals have been 

 made to the teachers of science to agree upon and 

 make known the best and surest modes of success 

 in this new industrial pursuit. 



It is in answer to these calls that I have insti- 

 tuted at the College of France a series of experi- 

 ments, in which I study, with the greatest care, all| 

 the conditions which favor or hinder their success. 



