 | Francis Trevelyan Buckland - 1881 - 448 páginas
...understanding in its present condition will never be able to fathom. In Land and Water, vol. vii., p. 26, Jan. 9, 1869, Mr. Jeremiah Wilson, of Stockton-on-Tees,...taken two torpedoes in the estuary of the Tees. You eay the one you dissected had nothing in its stomach. I was curious enough to see what those that I... | |
 | Richard Lydekker - 1901 - 330 páginas
...writer in Land and Water, for 1869, in reply to Buckland, observes that " I have taken two torpedos in the estuary of the Tees. You say the one you dissected...living upon, so I put my knife into one, and took from him an eel two pounds in weight, and a flounder nearly one pound. The next one I opened also, and was... | |
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... benefit of a humble fish. The lesson we should learn from the torpedo is that we men, with all our boasted intellect, stand but on the shores of an ocean of knowledge, the profound depths of which human understanding in its present condition will... 