Note 2376 — BOOK IX. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF FISHES.
John Bostock translation
Cuvier observes, that all fishes are found to have in the membranous labyrinth of the ear, bodies like stone, enclosed in a certain kind of gelatinous liquor. These bodies, however, he says, are not equally large in all kinds of fish. He says that it is found largest in the sciæna.