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Show Electric Fish. The electric fish of the Nile, of which the Egyptians made pictures thousands of years ago, still inhabit the waters of that river. They are provided pro-vided with an electrical organ which incloses the whole body. It Is situated situat-ed In the sklu, and under a microscope Is seen to be composed of millions of beautifully formed little disks, super-Imposed super-Imposed upon connected rows of minute mi-nute compartments,, in which are the terminals of nerves The shock is pvo. duced by an Intense current that traverses tra-verses tho entire organ from the head to the tail of the fish. It stuns small fish. The electro motive force in a fish eight inches long can attain a maximum of 200 volt3. A single giant nerve cell at the head of the spinal column is the source of the Impulses. |