Paper, 'Contribution to the anatomy of fishes. I. The air-bladder and Weberian ossicles in the Siluridae' by Thomas William Bridge and Alfred Cort Haddon

Description

The authors write: 'Weber, in his classical memoir entitled ‘De Aure et Auditu Hominis et Animalinm. Pars. I.—De Anre Animalium aquatilium,’ published in 1820, was the first to show that in certain families of Physostomous Teleostei, which were subsequently grouped together under the name of Ostariophysese by the late Dr. Sagemehl, there exists a peculiar connexion between the membranous labyrinth of the internal ear and the air-bladder by means of a chain of movably interconnected "auditory" ossicles.'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Zoology / Ichthyology

Received 12 June 1889. Read 20 June 1889. Communicated by Alfred Newton.

A version of this paper was published in volume 46 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Contribution to the anatomy of fishes. I. The air-bladder and Weberian ossicles in the Siluridæ'.

Reference number

PP/14/26

Earliest possible date

1889

Physical description

Ink and graphite pencil on paper

Page extent

26 pages

Format

Manuscript