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Staff Pick of the Week / Science Saturday

My staff pick is A Treatise on the Artificial Propagation of Fish, with the Description and Habits of Such Kinds as are the Most Suitable for Pisciculture by Theodatus Garlick (1805-1884), published by A.O. Moore, New York, 1858. 

Theodatus Garlick was a surgeon of diverse accomplishments who spent much of his life in Ohio. He developed new procedures in plastic surgery, and is noted for performing one of the most difficult and most successful facial reconstructions of his time. He invented new instruments for operations in amputation, trepanning (drilling into the skull), and obstetrics. Garlick was the first to take a daguerreotype photograph in Cleveland Ohio with a camera he made following Daguerre's, and he is also noted for taking the first photograph without direct light, in the shade. 

In 1853, Garlick was the first to successfully artificially fertilize trout eggs and built the first fish hatchery in the United States, his work and research became an invaluable resource to the fish farming industry in the United States. Garlick first wrote these papers for The Ohio Farmer, a Cleveland Newspaper "devoted to the improvement and betterment of the farmer, his family, and farm." Before him there was no work on fish culture which focused on native species. This work includes descriptions of American fishes and their habitats as well as detailed descriptions for artificial propagation, and the appropriate kinds of water for each fish. His works are first compiled and published here by A. O. Moore, an agricultural book publisher. 

The book has a very detailed embossed cover. The wood engravings are so finely detailed I could hardly tell how they were made. The wood engravings are likely printed from stereotype, metal reproductions of the original wooden matrix, a common practice in 19th century commercial printing. 

Garlick was also a highly skilled artist. He created many sculpted portraits of his colleagues and medical professionals, as well as judges and politicians. If he were not so dedicated to the sciences he may have become a very successful and well known artist. 

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-Teddy, Special Collections Graduate Intern. 

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March 30

Theodatus Garlick was born on March  30, 1805 in VT, USA.

Miss Cynthia Kinne was born on  March 30, 1827 in Oneida County, NY, USA.

Miss Marintha Kinne was born on  March 30, 1827 in Oneida County, NY, USA.

Paul Hinrich Matthais Foelsche was  born on March 30, 1831 in Moorburg, Germany.

Albert Thomas Watson Penn was born  on March 30, 1849 in Somerset, England.

Claude A. Guerin was born on March  30, 1876 in Port Huron, MI, USA.

Miss Grace E. Foote was born on  March 30, 1876 in MI, USA.

William August Gross was born on  March 30, 1876 in NY, USA.

James Garfield Kunze was born on  March 30, 1882 in Rochester, NY, USA.

Howard M. Hall was born on March  30, 1886 in MI, USA.

Jonathan L. Sherman was born on  March 30, 1889 in Kalamazoo County, MI, USA.

Fortunato Depero was born on March  30, 1892 in Fondo, Italy.

Cosmas Vassilios Cosmades was born  on March 30, 1895 in Constantinople, Turkey.

Gunnar Olof George was born on  March 30, 1898 in  Sweden.

William H. Allen was born on March  30, 1902 in Hackensack, NJ, USA.

Joseph John Elliott died on March  30, 1903 in Barnet, Greater London, England.

Daniel Holstead Viall died on March  30, 1907 in Bay City, MI, USA.

Seward Sharpsteen died on March 30,  1909 in Marshall, MI, USA.

Isaac E. Wells died on March 30,  1912 in Athens, MI, USA.

Nathan Bernard Lerner was born on  March 30, 1913 in Chicago, IL, USA.

Henry Ketchum Averill Jr. died on  March 30, 1918.

Edwin Henry Wilkinson died on March  30, 1925 in Detroit, MI, USA.

Sarah H. Ladd died on March 30,  1927 in Carmel-By-The-Sea, CA, USA.

Charles Russell Baker died on March  30, 1932.

Bertha Evelyn Jaques died on March  30, 1941 in Chicago, IL, USA.

Edwin C. Berryman died on March 30,  1945 in San Diego, CA, USA.

Ylla died on March 30, 1955 in  Bharatpur, India.

Edward James Arthur died on March  30, 1964 in Detroit, MI, USA.

Orson Leonard Van Nocker died on  March 30, 1967 in Orange County, CA, USA.

Joseph George Premo, Junior died on  March 30, 1976 in Fremont, MI, USA.

Dorothy M. Smith died on March 30,  1982 in Seattle, WA, USA.

Lisette Model died on March 30,  1983 in New York, NY, USA.

Bruce Bernard died on March 30,  2000 in London, England.

Eileen Darby died on March 30, 2004  in Long Beach, NY, USA.