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it is used to capture the wild horses of South Ame- 

 rica, will he read with interest. 



The species which possess this property are 

 mostly of clumsy or disgusting form, particularly 

 the torpedos. 



GALVANI'S TORPEDO, 



Torpedo Galvani, Risso, 

 PLATE XXVI. 



Will show their form. According to our latest 

 British Ichthyology, the torpedo occurring on the 

 British coasts has scarcely been properly identified 

 with those of the continental seas ; but that which 

 we have given to represent the form is one of the 

 most powerfully supplied with galvanic influence. 



The fishes in which these electrical organs have 

 been unequivocally discovered, are, as before men- 

 tioned, the electric ray (Raja torpedo)^ now the 

 torpedo proper, the electric eel (Gymnotus electri- 

 cusj, the Silurus electricus, the Tetrodon electricus, 

 and the Trichiurus electricus, or Indicus, as it is 

 termed by some naturalists. 



Carus declares the electric organ in these fishes 



