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One Shilling......... J. Pugh, 18th July, 1826. 
One Ditto.........0 Ditto, 20th July, 1826. 
One Ditto............ J. Griffiths, 27th February, 1826. 
One Ditto............ J. Yeates, 5th April, 1824. 
One Ditto............ J. Haughton, 29th July, 1826. 
Sixpence .......-s0 Ditto, 24th July, 1826. 
The following books, recently arrived from England, lay on the table for 
inspection—Reichenbach’s Researches on the Dynamics of Magnetism, 
Electricity, Heat, Light, &c., in relation to Vital Forces. Badham’s Fun- 
guses of England. Nereis Australis, by Wm. Henry Harvey, M.D., 
2 parts. Zoology of H.M.S. Hrebus and Terror, 15 parts, Six Ethnogra- 
phical Maps, in 2 parts, by J. C. Prichard, M.D., F.R.S. 
A letter from Mr, Bennett, Secretary to the Linnean Society of London, 
was read, acknowledging Part 1 of Vol. 2 of * Papers and Proceedings 
of the Royal Society of Van Diemen’s Land.” 
The Secretary drew attention to the attempts lately made in France to 
transpose the ova of salmon and trout, &c., to rivers in which they did not 
previously exist—the eminent success with which the experiments had 
been crowned, and the liberal encouragement and assistance afforded by the 
French Government to the execution of the project on a large scale, The 
Secretary then read the following article on the subject, taken from the 
Perth Courier :— 
ARTIFICIAL PROPAGATION OF SALMON, TROUT, AND OTHER FISH. 
We lately extracted an article from a metropolitan journal on the new mode 
of propagating salmon—invented, or at all events extensively and system- 
atically practised, by two ingenious Frenchmen of the Vozges, which had 
been made the subject of a special report to the Minister of Agriculture and 
Commerce in August last. We have since received a copy of the report 
itself, which is interesting—both from the details it contains of the process 
followed, and from the evidence it affords of the attention which the French, 
Government bestows on every scheme connected with the advancement 
of the national interests. Under the patronage of the latter, a sum of 30,000 
franes was voted to the engineers of the canal which connects the Rhone 
with the Rhine, to form from its superfluous waters an artificial pond, with 
the requisite works for carrying out the new scheme on a large scale, where, 
within the first six months of its establishment, they had impregnated 
upwards of three millions of ova of different species, which had produced. 
1,683,200 living fish. On this fact being reported to the Minister of the 
Interior, M. Coste, a member of the Institute and an experienced naturalist, 
was appointed to visit the different establishments of the same nature 
situated in the Lagoons of the Adriatic, near the mouths of the Po, Adige, 
and Brenta, as well as the Camachio, where large conserves of delicious 
fish have existed for a long period—with the view of a general introduction 
of the system into all the suitable rivers of France. = 
The substance of M. Coste’s report is, that not only the ova of the salmon, 
although carried from their native beds to great distances, preserve all their 
