Show Keeping Up p pi i 0 h en e Scy n ern e ep C p S SIT Service ICI Electric Eel Ed toBe toBe to toBe Be Investigated in His Habitat Working of His Power Plant Will ill Be He Studied New York York What What happens hap hap- pens peng to an electric eel when another electric eel hands it ita ita ita a dose of ot its own medicine This Is one of ot the questions being taken to the Brazilian tropics by Dr Richard T. T Cox ot of the New NewYork NewYork York university physics department department depart depart- ment who has left for tor an extended research visit in Para Pars Brazil near the mouth of the Amazon a favored haunt of ot the tho shocking elongated fish whose hose ability to generate and discharge paralyzing jolts of ot electricity elec Is la one of ot the classic riddles of ot biophysics Among Amon the pieces of ot apparatus which Dr Cox Is II taking with him Isone Is Isone Isone one calculated to deliver electrical discharges like those of ot the eel It It self seU lies Ills plan Is to put hit hie eel Into contact with the device give live It the works and then make a careful care care- ful tul scientific record of ot the fishs fish's a reaction This Is something that has hat never been done in the aquarium studies thus far undertaken in temperate tem ten lands land Will Study It Ita Ili Power rower Plant Even more Intimate to studies of ot the electric eels eel's Internal power plant and it lu lie workings are planned by Dr Cox He lie plans to block o ofT various va rious ports parti of ot the eels eel's system of ot electric organs organ I. I either by sectioning section Snit ing nerves or with anesthetics and thus thul to make analytic studies which i have never been possible under aquarium conditions condition where the supply sup ply of specimens is so limited that only studies of surface reactions reaction have been possible 1 A prime part of Dr Coxs Cox's research research re reo I search apparatus will be the cathode cathode cath ode ray a relatively new Instrument which has hu proved a most powerful tool In the hands of ot physicist physicists and engineers studying the nature and rates of ot sudden electrical elec discharges Modern apparatus tUI of ot this kind has haa never been used In eel electric eel studies he says laYs t Why h by lie lea Goes to the Eels I Crl On One reason wh why Dr Cox Is II going to the theT tropics tropic where the eels are instead of having the eels eela brought to him Is S that t these peculiar fish Ash do not l survive the voyage north st all well 0 so that It Is better economy for tor him to go where they are ore plentiful ful and where he can consequently afford to use up a few without constantly con scantly having to keep an anxious eye ee on a diminishing supply in a tank Dr Cox will have with him his wife Mrs Shelby Shackelford Cox as II artist and general assistant and anda a biologist Robert nobert S. S Mathews graduate student at Columbia |