Scientific amusements . Small aqnnrinm, with frogs ladder. particularly a case of catalepsy produced in a code. Iwill describe this remarkable experiment, certainly one ofthe most curious we ever performed. We place a cock on a table of dark colour, rest its i6 OPEN-AIR SCIENCE. beak on the surface, where it is firmly held, and with apiece of chalk slowly draw a white line in continuationfrom the beak, as shown in our engraving. If the crestis thick, it is necessary to draw it back, so that the animal. Frog lying in wait for a fly. may follow with his eyes the tracing of the line. Whenthe line
Scientific amusements . Small aqnnrinm, with frogs ladder. particularly a case of catalepsy produced in a code. Iwill describe this remarkable experiment, certainly one ofthe most curious we ever performed. We place a cock on a table of dark colour, rest its i6 OPEN-AIR SCIENCE. beak on the surface, where it is firmly held, and with apiece of chalk slowly draw a white line in continuationfrom the beak, as shown in our engraving. If the crestis thick, it is necessary to draw it back, so that the animal. Frog lying in wait for a fly. may follow with his eyes the tracing of the line. Whenthe line has reached a length of two feet the cock hasbecome cataleptic. He is absolutely motionless, his eyesare fixed, and he will remain from thirty to sixty secondsin the same posture in which he had at first only beenhead remains resting on the table in held by force. His THE CATALEPTIC COCIC U
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