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and thus from two corpses may be brought forth a 

 numerous and strong generation.* 



* This report of Mods. Edwards I have translated from a work 

 entitled " Feeondation artificielle et iiclosion des ceufs de poissons, 

 suivi de riflexions sur I'ichtyogenie, par le docteur JHaxo, d'^Jpinal, 

 SecrHaire perpHuel de la Sodete d'Emulation des Vbsges, Membre 

 de la Society des Sciences, Lettrea, et Artsde Nancy, etc." Tlie object 

 of Dr. Haxo's work appears to be to prove the claim of the two 

 fishermen of Vosges, Gehin and Remy, to the title of discoverers 

 of the method of artificially impregnating and hatching fishes' 

 eggs, by showing that they were the first to bring it into use and 

 practically prove it could be done, and that all others had only 

 theoretically treated the subject till these two poor fishermen took 

 it in hand and showed to the world its value. Dr. Haxo claims 

 it' for them as their original discovery, on the ground that they 

 were so unlettered as to have been utterly, ignorant of any re- 

 seaiohes or experiments of naturalists. He insists that they have 

 been badly treated, their discovery stolen from them by natural- 

 ists who have no right to it, yet claim it as their own, or as belong- 

 ing to disoovereis of a past century. Dr. Haxo brings several docu- 

 ments to fortify his position, and comments with great warmth 

 upon the injustice towards these fishermen displayed by M. Coste, 

 in the work of which a translation forms part of this volume, as 

 well as by M. Edwards in tlus report. As the details of the method 

 pursued by Gehin and Remy, given in Dr. Haxo's work, are not 

 fuller than those here given from the pamphlet of Godeniei-, and 

 as his work seems for the most part a defence of the claims of Ge- 

 hin and Remy as discoverers, I have not thought that a transla- 

 tion of it would add to the value of this volume, as a manual of 

 fish culture. Dr. Haxo accompanies the publication of M. Ed- 

 wards's report with many notes to show its injustice to the two 

 fishermen ; as a specimen of them I quote this one referring to the 

 passage above. — TVanslator. 



"After reading this passage who is there who would not be led 

 to believe that the processes of artificial fecundation were not per- 

 fectly known, at least by savants ? But notwithstanding this, M. 

 de Quatrefages says not a word of them in the memoir he presented 



