The Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 44: November, 1893, to April, 1894 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from The Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 44: November, 1893, to April, 1894

The collection of the floating spat upon pieces of wood and stone is said to have been discovered by M. De Bon, Commissaire of Marine at St. Servan, France, in 1853; and we know that, when he announced his discovery, the matter was at once taken up most enthusiastically by M. Coste, Professor of Embryology in the College of France. They undoubtedly drew public and scien tific attention to this all-important branch of oyster culture but I find that several years before the discovery of De Bon, the oys termen of the East River, New York, had not only made a simi lar discovery, but that they conceived the idea of utilizing it, and used tiles (a recent invention in French oyster culture) for collect ing the Spat, which they planted in the river and sound. Fur ther, and in circumstantial proof of the statement, it is a fact that in 1855 - the year when De Bon made his discovery - the Legisla ture of the State of New York enacted a law to preserve to the private (oyster) farmers the fruits of their labor.

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