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watched the streams by day and upon moonlight nights — 
his watching, it is said, being facilitated by the great drought 
of that year — and was rewarded by witnessing the whole 
sequence of the habits of trout upon their spawning-beds 
and by observing the great destruction of eggs which nat- 
rally occurs. He then, it is claimed, independently of Jacobi 
of whom he had never heard, imagined the plan of imitating 
by art what he had seen occur in nature and proceeded to 
put his plan in operation. Aided by his companion, Antoine 
Gehin the inn-keeper, he collected breeding fish, fertilized 
the eggs and placed them in perforated tin boxes in pure, 
running spring-water, taking frequent observations of the 
course of hatching, and feeding the young fry upon frog’s 
eggs, bullock’s blood, and later upon small herbivorous fish, 
and stocking the streams with them when sufficiently grown, 
and thus repairing his fallen industry. Remy and Gehin 
are said to have kept their process a secret for several years, 
but finally to have written an account of it to the Prefet 
des Vosges in 1848, and in 1839 their experiments were 
brought to the notice of the Academie des Sciences. In 
August, 1850 M. Milne-Edwards, the French savant, was 
charged by government with an investigation of the subject: 
in his report he acknowledged that the original discovery of 
Artificial Fertilization was due to Jacobi a century previous, 
but that Remy and Gehin were the first to apply it practically 
in France. He then recommended the re-stocking of all 
French trout-waters in this manner, and that Remy and Gehin 
should, as their reward, be entrusted with the execution of the 
work. A commission was appointed and the undertaking was 
commenced. In that same year, 1851, a large government 
fish-farm was, through the exertions of M. Coste, established 
at Hliningen, in Alsace, not far from Bale, marking, as Dr. 
Brown-Goode observes, the commencement of public Fish- 
culture. This establishment originally cost the sum of 
250,000 francs, ($50,000) and in a year or two it was dis¬ 
tributing at least twenty millions of ova and fry annually, 
not only of trout and saibling, but also of salmon, shad. 
