90 THE NEW ART OF BREEDING FISH. 



Waldenstein, in the department of Hant-Ehiu, de- 

 puted them to re-stock the water-courses of his com- 

 mune, and this intelligent official gives assurance 

 that they perfectly succeeded. 



I would add also, that, wishing to render the 

 discovery of the widest public utility, our fishermen 

 never made any secret of their processes, but, on the 

 contrary, readily initiated any one who desired to 

 undertake similar work. All who have ever had 

 occasion to witness the labors of G-ehin and Remy 

 bestow on them the highest praise. 



I visited their establishment and witnessed some 

 of their experiments. The Society of Emulation 

 took up and fully investigated the subject, and be- 

 stowed on each of these worthy men an honorary 

 medal. The work they proposed it seems to me 

 they fully succeeded in, and to render their country 

 great service they only need the means to extend 

 their operations. I do not judge solely by the re- 

 sults obtained by G-ehin and Eemy, but also by simi- 

 lar ones on a large scale, which I found to have been 

 obtained for several years past in Great Britain, and 

 which had excited there considerable interest. 



In fact, M. Boccius, a civil engineer of Hammer- 

 smith, has practised artificial fecundation in stocking 

 several rivers of Great Britain, and seems to have 

 had complete success. 



In 1841 he worked in the streams belonging to 

 Mr. Drummond, in the neighborhood of Uxbridge, 

 and he estimates at 120,000 the number of trout he 



