 | John Platts - 1876 - 986 pages
...cranium and gills, reaching thence to each great fin, and extending longitudinally from the anterior extremity of the animal, to the transverse 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
...cranium and gills, reaching thence to each great fin, and extending longitudinally from the anterior extremity of the animal, to the transverse 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 - 910 pages
...longitudinally from the anterior extremity of the animal to the transverso cartilage which divides th«> thorax from the abdomen ; and within these limits...the whole space between the skin of the upper and of the under surface: they are thickest at the edges near the centre of the fish, and become gradually... | |
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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,... 
