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a fisherman and pisciculturist. The names of E&my and Ge- 

 hin were destined to become indissoluble. They unveiled 

 the advantages of the discovery to a few notable persons ; 

 but our two poor copartners met with the difficulties com- 

 mon to those who discover any strange improvement by 

 means of a switch from the track of ISTature. In the mean 

 time the inspector of primary schools in the Vosges received 

 information of the discovery, and communicated it to the 

 Society of Emulation. This society, being of high celebrity, 

 occupied itself at once upon the question. In a report by 

 M. Sarrazin on the recompenses accorded to agriculture and 

 industry by the Society of Emulation, the proceedings of 

 E&my and G&hin were described. M. Micard, General Guard 

 of the Forests, had favored the early effi)rts of Bemy, and 

 gave him in spawning-time the liberty of the brooks of the 

 forests. 



In spite of the memoir of John Shaw — malgri, the results 

 which were vauntingly promised to England — malgr& the 

 fortunate experiments of Memy and GiMn, encouraged by 

 the Society of Emulation for the Vosges, all slept again. 



The interest in the success of those men, whose ardor and 

 industry greatly multiplied the number of fishes, lasted no 

 longer than the transient sound of the murmurs of the rivers 

 and brooks which had proved the theatre of their exploits. 



But on the 23d of October, 1848, M. de Quatrefages, in pur- 

 suit of the development of certain animals, fished up the com- 

 munication of Count Goldstein, and read at the Academie des 

 Sciences a memoir demonstrative of artificial fecundation be- 

 ing the means for obviating the causes of destruction to the 

 eggs of fishes. 



The lecture of M. de Quatrefages at the Academy of Sci- 

 ences was published by numerous journals, which projected 

 the subject into the air of public favor, and the assurance of 

 the lecturer that a pursuit of the subject would be the birth 

 of a new industry important to the world, decided the com- 

 mencement of action. All the world was at once going into 



