Text-book of general physics, for the use of colleges and scientific schools (1899)
Hastings, Charles Sheldon · Boston: Ginn & company · leaf 599
Fig. 395. 588 COMPOUXD TOXES. with a number of stiff elastic hairs, extremely well adaptedfor moving sympathetically with the fluid in which they areimmersed. In the vicinity of these surfaces there are also found anumber of calcareous concretions, known as otoliths, designed … Fig. 396. apparently to produce a mechanical irritation in the nerves ofthe surface upon which they rest, whenever they are agitated. 522. Functions of the Several Parts of the Ear.—When a train of sound-waves falls on the ear, the agitation of theair near the drum will set this membrane in a…
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