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3. On the Existence of an Electrical Apparatus in the Flapper Skate and other Rays

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2015

James Stark M.D.
James Stark M.D.
Affiliation:
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh.
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Extract

The author, after noticing the fishes in which an electrical apparatus had been discovered, stated that, with the exception of Geoffroy St Hilaire, no writer had endeavoured to shew that Skates possessed electrical organs. The organ to which that writer alluded, the author regarded as nothing else than muciparous ducts, identical with the very same organs in the Torpedo, and quite distinct from the electrical organs. The circumstance was then mentioned which directed the author's attention to the tail of the skate, and led him to suppose that an electrical organ might exist in it.

Type
Proceedings 1844-45
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 2 , 1851 , pp. 1 - 3
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1850

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