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| istre de la Marine ct de Colonies Par
M. P. de Broca, Directure des Mouve-
lnentss du Port du" Havre. Published
Paris, 1865. Challamel-Alne Editeur'
says: "Ces renseignements Mayant etc
| d'allleurs Confirms par plusieur cap
tainis Americans frequentant lie Port
| du Havre.'
| All this Captain ToWnshend immedl-
| ately communicated to M. Coate ana
suggested to him to have samples OIL
| shell fish brought over from New YORK
by the transatlantic steamer. rms
proposition was Immediately accepted
and funds from the College of France
were put at my disposition and in May,
| 1861, one of the officers of the Ameri-
can Steamship Arago brought to HaVre
quantity of round CLAIMS Venus Mer-
cenaria) and Virginia oysters and lald
down near La Hougue, st. Waart.
Some time after the Emperor Napo-
leon III, who had taken great interest
in this scheme to introduce American
shell fish future into France directed
the consul general OF France at New
York, M de Montholon, to open an In
tervieW with the famous Professor
Agassis of Cambridge and there M
Coste, membre de LInstitute, was en-
powered by the emperor to take such
steps as would assure success to this
useful enterprise and towards the end
Of the year 1861 NJ Coste requested the
minister of marine to direct Captain
de Broca to visit the United States and
make thorough study Of the shell fish
industry.
These orders were received soon af-
ter by Captain de Broca and he depart
ed from Liverpool in the steamer Asia
for New York on March 20, 1852. On ar
rival in the United States M. de Broca
came to New Haven, making headquar-
ters at the Tontine, where he had let
tiers of introduction from the United
States consul at Havre and several
merchants, besides one from Captain
Townshend, and was at once put In
communication with c. s. Maltby, Smith
G. futile, Esq. and others who made
every effort to make his tour of investi-
cation a success. Shortly after M. de
Brocas coming Captain Townshend's
timely arrival at the port Of New York
gave these investigators several oppor- 4
tunities to make excursions to the shell
fish grounds of our harbor and here,
and then M. de Broca observed the
enormous amount OF marine animal life
in our waters and produced his evil
dences of the means employed in Euro
pean waters to collect the spat or spawn
of shell fishes such as the oyster and
mussel by means of shells, tiles on
brush, which then and ever since have
been made use of by the oyster growers
of the French coast. These materials !
make stool for the spawn to set upon
when this spawn arrives at proper de-
to sink from the surface to
the bottom, and 1t has also been proved |
that where a strong current exists and
the ground is clean and free from slime |
and other foul substances this embryo |
at once clings and then commences |
rapid growth, 80 per cent. Of which Is
destroyed by the elements and marine
creatures.
We are told by NJ Coste in his "Voy- !
age Exploration sur lie Llttoral de la |
France ct de l'Italiae, Paris, 1861" that |
one adult oyster Is capable of spawning !
Z, 900, 600 eggs, and we have evidence Of |
this spawn floating for days and car
ried by winds and currents miles before |
the embryo has gained weight enough |
to sink. While such great preparations
are now In progress at this propitious /
season Just commenced of she'll plant |
ing in Long Island sound for the pur-
pose of collecting the embryo oyster, a
in oyster culture, which took |
Its start from about the time M. de Bro
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