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Show FISH THAT SURVIVE FREEZING Svylks8clenttst-Ras Made a Discovery That 'May Be of 'Much Commercial Commer-cial Importance. The ordinary cold storagu .of fish ls put put of dato by ,Mr. It. PJctet, .the brilliant Swiss scientist, rioted 'for his experiments with, cold. He! has' 3ust succeeded in freezing live fish and reviving re-viving thorn several weeks or months later, an achievement which recalls Edmond About's fanciful tale of "The Man With the Broken Ear." Ho recently re-cently placed. 28 fish In a box containing contain-ing water rich in oxygen, and In which several pieces of Jce were floating. 'Ho then very slowly reduced the tempera-turo tempera-turo of the contents. At the end of about two months the resultant cake of Ice was gradually thawed and the fish were all found to be alive. According Ac-cording to the report of the experiment experi-ment given in L'lllustratlon (Paris), It Is essential that the wator be very gradually frozen and that it shall have contained pieces of ice for from fifteen to eighteen hours before the whole mass Is frozen. Tho process ot thawing thaw-ing 'must also be very slow. It Is stated stat-ed that AlaBkun salmon nnd Slborlnn sturgeon may thus be brought alive to Paris. Methods of making tho process commercially successful are now being be-ing sought. |