 | Thomas Dick - 1869 - 664 pages
...in various parts of the sea-coast of Europe. Its electric organs are two in number, and placed, one on each side of the cranium and gills, reaching from...cartilage which divides the thorax from the abdomen. The length of each organ is somewhat less than one third part of the length of the whole animal. Each... | |
 | 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 - 910 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 are placed one 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 which divides... 
