 | John Platts - 1876 - 986 pages
...John Hunter: he states them "to be placed on each side of the cranium and gills, reaching thence to each great fin, and extending longitudinally from...cartilage which divides the thorax from the abdomen." From the whole description, it appears that these organs, as Mr. Shaw observes, constitute a pair of... | |
 | John Platts - 1882 - 558 pages
...John Hunter : he states them " to be placed on each side of the cranium and gills, reaching thence to each great fin, and extending longitudinally from...cartilage which divides the thorax from the abdomen." From the whole description, it appears that these organs, as Mr. Shaw observes, constitute a pair of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1805 - 912 pages
...its eleclric or Galvanic organs, which are thus accurately described by Mr. Hunter. " These organs are placed on each side of the cranium and gills,...longitudinally from the anterior extremity of the animal to the transverso cartilage which divides th«> thorax from the abdomen ; and within these limits they occupy... | |
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THE electric organs of the torpedo are placed on each side of the cranium and gills, reaching from thence to the semicircular cartilages of each great fin, and extending longitudinally from the anterior extremity of the animal to the transverse cartilage,... 
