| Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther - 1880 - 754 Seiten
...grow generally to a length of about three feet, but the capture of much larger examples is on record. Their mode of propagation is still unknown. So much...rivers during the winter months, and that some of them at least must spawn in brackish water or in deep water in the sea ; for in the course of the summer... | |
| United States Fish Commission - 1882 - 528 Seiten
...Commission, p. 2, 1874, 520. ichthyology, contributed -to the Encyclopedia Britannica, Giinther •writes : "Their mode of propagation is still unknown. So much...rivers during the winter months, and that some of them at least must spawn in brackish water or in deep water in the sea; for in the course of the summer... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1882 - 634 Seiten
...the present day to write of it as might have been written by Artedi or Bloch a century ago : — ' Their mode of propagation is still unknown. So much...certain, that they do not spawn in fresh water, that many full-groivn individuals, but not all, descend rivers during the winter months, and that some of them... | |
| 1882 - 900 Seiten
...eel, the manner of the reproduction of which is yet a puzzle to naturalists. Dr. Gunther says of it: " Their mode of propagation is still unknown. So much...rivers during the winter months, and that some of them, at least, must spawn in brackish water or in deep water in the sea ; for in the course of the summer... | |
| William Carmichael M'Intosh, Arthur Thomas Masterman - 1897 - 586 Seiten
...in the article on 'Ichthyology' in the Encyclopcedia Britannica, writes, — 'So much only is known that they do not spawn in fresh water, that many full-grown individuals, but not all, descend the rivers during the winter months, and that some of them at least must spawn in brackish water, or... | |
| Scotland. Fishery Board - 1895 - 530 Seiten
...article on ' Ichthyology ' in the Encycloj';<-(iti ftritannica, writes — ' So much only is known that they do not ' spawn in fresh water, that many full-grown individuals, but not all, ' descend the rivers during the winter months, and that some of them at ' least must spawn in brackish water,... | |
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