{"newspaper_name": "The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register.", "edition": "01", "page": "p2", "byline": ""}
IT late sitting Of the French Academy Of
Sciences, Baron Cuvier read memoir on a
certain species u fish found in the equator
iai regions, and which have the singular
property of living for considerable time
ont OF water. These fishes are found in
fresh water, and their flesh has very a.
greeable flavor When cut up into small
pieces, each fragment continues to palpitatc
Tor considerable time after it has been Sc
parated from the rest of the body; and this
quality renders them very useful to the In
tlian iuB5lcrs, vino exhibit them as a curl
osity 70 their spectators. Sonie Qf Mcm hape
beeH fgH4d r Me Ae'Sht # na frft .G.om he
Yfouad, on f0lm her&, on the borders Of cer-
tain po9ds and lakes!