 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1839 - 504 pagine
...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 pagine
...as they were more or less favourably situated with regard to the direction of the current. § 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 pagine
...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 pagine
...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 pagine
...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 pagine
...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 pagine
...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 pagine
...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 pagine
...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 pagine
...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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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,... 
