Note 42 — ON STEPPES AND DESERTS.
Henry G. (Henry George) Bohn translation
p. 17.—“The marshy waters of Bera and Rastro.”
I have elsewhere more circumstantially described the capture of the gymnotus.[HD] Mons. Gay Lussac and myself were perfectly successful in the experiments we conducted without a chain on a living gymnotus, which was still very vigorous when it reached Paris. The discharge of electricity is entirely dependent on the will of the animal. We did not observe any electric sparks, but other physicists have done so on numerous occasions.