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THE CALIFORNIAN SALMON. 
and appear, by tbeir action, to swim with pleasure ; every day they 
change colour, and assume the tints of the large fish ; the body 
becomes round, and fills out. 1 have retained a quantity of these 
little creatures, in order to be able to reproduce them at pleasure. It 
appears to me that a discovery of this nature, especially at a time 
when the rivers are nearly deprived of fish, in consequence of the 
drought of last season, is worthy of the attention of the Government. 
Signed J. REMY. 
Eemy was aAvarded a bronze medal and 100 francs, by a 
local scientific body, for his discovery, which would have 
remained in obscurity but for the paper of M. De Quatre- 
fasres, which brought the matter before the whole scientific 
world. Eemy and Gehin received a pension from the 
Government of 200 dollars per annum, and the former was 
granted a small monopoly in the sale of tobacco. 
The question was warmly taken up by M. Coste, Pro- 
fessor of Embryology, at the College de France, who 
contributed greatly, by his labours and researches, to place 
the science of pisciculture in the position to which it has 
since attained. In England, the importance of the subject 
has also been warmly advocated by Mr. Frank Buckland, 
Mr. Francis, and some other ardent pisciculturists, and at 
Stormontfield, on the Tay, an extensive salmon rearing 
establishment has been erected. At Galway, the Messrs. 
Ashworth have stocked with salmon, some large rivers 
and lakes extremely well suited to this fish, but which 
they had been prevented, by a natural barrier, from 
reaching in their ascent from the sea. At Huningue in 
Alsace-Lorraine, a very extensive fish rearing establishment 
has been in existence for many years, from which hundreds 
of thousands of fish were distributed annually, to stock the 
French rivers and lakes. The work is still continued by 
the Government of Germany, into whose possession the 
establishment has fallen. 
But the greatest triumph of pisciculture, is the success- 
ful transfer and acclimatisation of the salmon and trout. 
