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PRESENTS 
MADE TO THE 
ROYAL SOCIETY 
In the YEAR 1775; 
WITH 
The NAMES of the D O N O R S- 
Donor. Prefents. 
Omitted in the laft Volume. 
Dec. 8. John Walfh, Efq. F. R. S. A Gymnotus Eledtricus preferved in Spirits,, 
the eledtric Organs of which, by a re- 
moval of the (kin, are expofed to view«- 
This fifh, being one of five caught by 
George Baker in the river of Surinam, 
and the only one of them, perhaps 
the firft of the fpecies* brought alive into 
Europe, was landed in Odtober laft at 
Falmouth, where it frequently gave its 
ftiock during the week it furvived. 
A Drawing of this Gymnotus, mutilated, as 
it appears to be, at the Tail; and of an- 
other which is perfett, by Mrs. Gertrude 
Metz. 
A Drawing of a Gymnotus, exhibiting a 
view of it’s eJedtric Organs, taken by 
Mr. Pingo under the direction of Mr. 
Hunter.- 
N. B. Plates of thefe Drawings, with tw o 
others prefented alfo by Mr. W alfi, accom- 
pany Mr. Hunter s Paper concerning the 
Gymnotust read the nth May, 1775. 
Nov 
