...treated of in the next chapter. The electric organs of fishes offer another case of special difficulty ; it is impossible to conceive by what steps these wondrous organs have been produced ; but as Owen and others have remarked, their intimate structure closely resembles that of" common...

...of in the next chapter. The electric organs of fishes offer another case of special difficulty ; for it is impossible to conceive by what steps these wondrous organs have been produced. As Owen has remarked, there is much analogy between them and ordinary muscles, in their manner of action,...

...out of natural ores, acids distilled out of other natural substances ; and he puts these together in such fashion as he knows will generate the mysterious...— that a special apparatus should be prepared, and we see that it is effected by the production of the machine required ; but we have not the remotest...

...alleged mutations are effected. He uses very strong language in some instances, and tells us that ' it is impossible to conceive by what steps these wondrous organs have been produced ' (p. 818). He acknowledges, not merely once or twice, that these things pass his knowledge — the...

...alleged mutations are effected. ... He uses very strong language in some instances, and tells us that 'it is impossible to conceive by what steps these wondrous organs have been produced ' (p. 818). He acknowledges, not merely once or twice, that these things pass his knowledge — the...

...out of natural ores, acids distilled out of other natural substances ; and he puts these together in such fashion as he knows will generate the mysterious...what steps these wondrous organs have been produced.' " Perhaps no illustration more striking of this principle was ever presented than in the curious volume...

...air-breathing lung.' And again : — 'The electric organs of fishes offer another case of special difficulty. It is impossible to conceive by what steps these wondrous organs have been produced ; but, as Owen and others have remarked, their intimate structure closely resembles that of common...

...bees, the battery of the electric eel, the human eye, and the eye of the cuttle-fish, he owns that " it is impossible to conceive by what steps these wondrous organs have been produced." When asked for the missing links between existing species, he refers us to the undiscovered fossiliferous...

...chapter. The electric . ts i \" organs of fishes offer another caso of special difficulty ; for it is i? impossible to conceive by what steps these wondrous organs have "" been produced. But this is not surprising, for wo do not even know of what use they are. In the Gymnotus and Torpedo...

...present state of ignorance, a difficulty almost exactly parallel with that of the electric organs," and "it is impossible to conceive by what steps these wondrous organs have been produced." 2 1 The present paper is part of three lectures on Animal Phosphorescence, delivered at the Marine...