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success. In France little or nothing was done, except by 
Quatrefages, till we reach the two peasants, Rémy and Gehin, 
whose labours laid firm the foundation on which all subsequent 
Pisciculturists have built. 
In 1849 the Academy of Sciences learned that a prize had 
been granted in 1845 by the Society of the Vosges to two 
fishermen of La Bresse, Rémy and Gehin, for having fertilised 
and artificially hatched eggs from trout, and for having raised 
some five to six thousand trout from one to three years old, 
which continued to thrive in the waters in which they were 
confined. 
On investigation by the Academy, it was found that Rémy 
and Gehin (who came in later) had been led from conclusions 
based entirely on their own observations (for “ they are quite 
unlettered and ignorant of the progress of the Natural Sciences ’’) 
to employ with success methods rather similar, but superior, 
to those of Jacobi. 
They had enormously decreased the high mortality by their 
greatest and probably unique achievement, 7.¢. provision for 
the fry of a natural food. This was produced by the simulta- 
neous rearing of a smaller and non-cannibal species, and by 
the collection in the enclosed streams or made waterways 
into which the young trout were liberated of hundreds of 
frogs, whose spawn afforded an excellent subsistence. 
Jacobi’s and Rémy’s discovery was the parent of our 
modern Pisciculture. The gear and apparatus, especially in 
America, have been transformed. The methods of stripping, 
of hatching, of feeding are enormously improved, with mortality 
in eggs and fry incredibly reduced. 
From this account of their discoveries and from the nature 
of the methods now in use, it is obvious that the suggestion 
of Badham and others that the method of breeding fish 
employed by modern Pisciculturists was practically that of 
the Romans must go by the board. 
