Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885, Dallinger, W. H. (William Henry), 1842-1909 · Philadelphia, Blakiston · leaf 1050
of the sensory nerves. In no part of the circulating apparatus, however, does thedisposition of the capillaries present more points of interest than itdoes in the respiratory organs. In bony fishes the respiratory surfaceis formed by an outward extension into fringes of g%U$t each of w hichconsists… … every one of these laminae (fig. 738) is furnished with a double rowof leaflets, which is most minutely supplied with blood-vessels, theirnetwork (as seen at A) being so close that its meshes (indicated by thedots in the figure) cover less space than the vessels themselves. Thegills of fish are not…
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