| Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1839 - 504 pages
...A live fish about five inches in length, caught not half a minute before, was dropped into the tub. The Gymnotus instantly turned round in such a manner as to form a coil inclosing the fish, the latter representing a diameter across it; a shock passed, and there in an instant... | |
| John Frederic Daniell - 1843 - 810 pages
...as they were more or less favourably situated with regard to the direction of the current. ยง 889. The gymnotus can stun and kill fish which are in various...instantly turned round in such a manner as to form a coil inclosing the fish, the latter representing a diameter across it. A shock passed, and in an instant,... | |
| Rosina Maria Zornlin - 1843 - 140 pages
...live fish, about five inches in length, was dropped into the tub containing the gymnotus. The latter instantly turned round in such a manner as to form a coil, inclosing the fish ; a shock passed, and there, in an instant, was the fish struck motionless, as if... | |
| Michael Faraday - 1844 - 334 pages
...A live fish about five inches in length, caught not half a minute before, was dropped into the tub. The Gymnotus instantly turned round in such a manner as to form a coil inclosing the fish, the latter representing a diameter across it; a shock passed, and there in an instant... | |
| Robert Hunt - 1849 - 538 pages
...live fish, about five inches in length, caught not half a minute before, was dropped into the tub. The Gymnotus instantly turned round in such a manner as to form a coil, inclosing the fish, the latter representing a diameter across it ; a shock passed, and there, in an... | |
| Henry M. Noad - 1849 - 534 pages
...live fish, about five inches in length, caught not half a minute before, was dropped into the tub. The Gymnotus instantly turned round in such a manner as to form a coil inclosing the fish, the latter representing a diameter across it : a shock passed, and there in an... | |
| 1850 - 604 pages
...live fish, about five inches in length, caught not half a minute before, was dropped into tha tub. The Gymnotus instantly turned round in such a manner as to form a coil inclosing the fish, the latter representing a diameter across it ; a shock passed, and there in an... | |
| 1850 - 662 pages
...live fish, about five inches in length, caught not half a minute before, was dropped into the tub. The Gymnotus instantly turned round in such a manner as to form a coil inclosing the fish, the latter representing a diameter across it ; a shock passed, and there in an... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 pages
...Alive fish, about five inches in length, caught not half a minute before, was dropped into the tub. 'U U inclosing the fish, the latter representing a diameter across it; a shock passed, and there in an instant... | |
| Robert Hunt - 1850 - 408 pages
...about live inches in length, caught not half a minute before, was dropped into the tub. The Gymnolus instantly turned round in such a manner as to form a coil, inclosing the fish, the latter representing a diameter across it ; a shock passed, and there, in an... | |
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