XXIX. An account of the lymphatic system in fish. By the same

Abstract

In the foregoing paper on the lymphatic system in a turtle, I have made no mention of the manner of discovering, and demonstrating those vessels; the reason was, there is no difficulty in either the one or the other; for, in that animal the mesentery being very thin and transparent, and the lacteals pretty large, they are more readily discovered than in any other animal; thence it happened that I saw those vessels in a turtle long before I discovered them in birds and fish, and that too by chance, and when I was not intent upon this inquiry.