 | 1836 - 726 páginas
...midwater, and ground swimmers. « * • • * It may be considered as a law, that those fish which swim near the surface of the water have a high standard...muscular irritability, great necessity for oxygen, die toon — almoM immediately when taken out of the water, and have flesh prone to rapid decomposition... | |
 | William Yarrell - 1836 - 462 páginas
...inversely as the degree of muscular irritability. It may be considered as a law, that those fish which swim near the surface of the water have a high standard...water, and have flesh prone to rapid decomposition : Mackerel, Salmon, Trout, and Herrings are examples. On the contrary, those fish that live near the... | |
 | 1837 - 704 páginas
...inversely as the degree of muscular irritability. It may be considered as a law, that those fish which swim near the surface of the water have a high standard...oxygen, die soon,,. almost immediately when taken out of the water, and have flesh prope to rapid decomposition. Mackerel, salmon, trout, and herrings, are... | |
 | 1837 - 612 páginas
...inversely as the degree of muscular irritability. It may l,e considered as a law, that those fish which swim near the surface of the water, have a high standard...degree of muscular irritability, great necessity for oxygon — die almost immediately when taken out of water — and have flesh prone to rapid decomposition... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1837 - 602 páginas
...standard of respiration, a low degree of muscular irritability, great necessity for oxygen — die almost immediately when taken out of water — and have flesh prone to rapid decomposition : mackerel, salmon, trout, and herrings are examples. On the contrary, those fish that live near the... | |
 | James Wilson - 1840 - 500 páginas
...inversely as the degree of muscular irritability. Mr. Yarrell regards it as a law, that those fishes which swim near the surface of the water, have a high standard...muscular irritability, great necessity for oxygen, die almost immediately when removed from the water, and have flesh prone to rapid decomposition — mackerel,... | |
 | William Yarrell - 1841 - 524 páginas
...inversely as the degree of muscular irritability. It may be considered as a law, that those fish which swim near the surface of the water have a high standard...muscular irritability, great necessity for oxygen, die soon—almost immediately when taken out of water, and have flesh prone to rapid decomposition: Mackerel,... | |
 | Richard Thomas Lowe - 1843 - 282 páginas
..." It may be considered as a law," says Mr. "\rarrell in the British Fishes, " that those fish that swim near the surface of the water have a high standard...die soon — almost immediately, when taken out of the water, and have flesh prone to rapid decomposition. On the contrary, those fish that live near... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1851 - 344 páginas
...this property much difference is found amongst fishes. Mr. Yarrell observes that those species which swim near the surface of the water, have a high standard...necessity for oxygen, die soon — almost immediately on being taken out of the water — and have flesh prone to rapid decomposition ; of these, Mackerel,... | |
 | Charles Grenfell Nicolay - 1852 - 482 páginas
...constantly in deep water ; amongst these are the sharks. Mr. Yarrell has remarked, ' that those fish which swim near the surface of the water have a high standard...die soon — almost immediately when taken out of the water — and have flesh prone to rapid decomposition. Mackerel, salmon, trout, and herrings are... | |
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Physiologists have shown that the quantity of respiration is inversely as the degree of muscular irritability. It may be considered as a law, that those fish which swim near the surface of the water have a high standard of respiration, a low degree of... 
