Scientific American Volume 47 Number 18 (October 1882) . GENERAL VIEW SLAB. at present confined to the laboratory, we may observe thatthese researches are very interesting, and that to M. Brardmust be ascribed the honor of having been the first to con-struct a veritable electro-generative combustible. Decline In the Salmon Oatcb. The salmon catch this year on the Pacific coast has beenthe smallest for many years. The canners blame theChinese, but say nothing of the frightfully wasteful fishingwheels which they themselves have been using of late, de-structive devices which unprejudiced observer
Scientific American Volume 47 Number 18 (October 1882) . GENERAL VIEW SLAB. at present confined to the laboratory, we may observe thatthese researches are very interesting, and that to M. Brardmust be ascribed the honor of having been the first to con-struct a veritable electro-generative combustible. Decline In the Salmon Oatcb. The salmon catch this year on the Pacific coast has beenthe smallest for many years. The canners blame theChinese, but say nothing of the frightfully wasteful fishingwheels which they themselves have been using of late, de-structive devices which unprejudiced observers have pre-dicted would produce the result now complained of bykilling all the young MEMBEBS OF THE FRENCH ASSOCIATION CABBIED TO THE H1T6SEL IN ACCONS. MEETING OF THE FBENCH ASSOCIATION FOB THEADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AT LA BOCHELLE. The eleventh meeting of the French Association for theAdvancement of Science recently took place at La usual on such occasions, many interesting excursionswere made to localities where historic curiosities shall not describe all these excursions, but shall speakonly of the more Interesting of them, and especially of thevisit to Esnandes and its mussel crawls. Sunday, August 37, everybody was astir, and omnibuseswere filled with excursionists at the Place dArmes, and setout one after the other for the coast at Esnandes, reachingit two hours afterward, during low tide. Here was seen animmense beach of slimy mud, on which it would have beenimpossible to venture without sinking in up. to the it was necessary to cross this to reach the stakes that areplanted at some distance out, and where the culture of
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