Archive image from page 786 of The depths of the ocean;. The depths of the ocean; a general account of the modern science of oceanography based largely on the scientific researches of the Norwegian steamer Michael Sars in the North Atlantic depthsofoceange00murr Year: 1912 GENERAL BIOLOGY 73i pigment is arranged in a chequered colour pattern, resembling the squares of a chess-board. So regular and characteristic are these stages that, once knowing them, we can separate a young cod from every other young fish, and define its stage of develop- ment or even its age. Since Sars discovered the egg
Archive image from page 786 of The depths of the ocean;. The depths of the ocean; a general account of the modern science of oceanography based largely on the scientific researches of the Norwegian steamer Michael Sars in the North Atlantic depthsofoceange00murr Year: 1912 GENERAL BIOLOGY 73i pigment is arranged in a chequered colour pattern, resembling the squares of a chess-board. So regular and characteristic are these stages that, once knowing them, we can separate a young cod from every other young fish, and define its stage of develop- ment or even its age. Since Sars discovered the eggs of the cod to be pelagic, a great many other species have been found to possess floating eggs and larvae, for example all the cod-species and flat-fishes, the sprat, the mackerel, and many others. A voluminous literature recording the investigations has accumulated, Agassiz,
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