Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-11-28
|ORY OF EEL s LIFE
ROMANCE OF SCIENCE
\ Chapter Just Contributed by
|ohanncs Schmidt, Director OF
Cnrlsbcrg Laboratory.
AWNING PLACES FOUND
We, Feed and Grow Under Our
yes Without reproducing Their
.im," Is Statement OF Professor
icrtiman.

CIV OF the romances OF science
NOR interesting than the modern
OF me life of the eel: 4 new
ributed by Johannes Schmidt, III
or OF the CarlsberE Laboratory
copenhagen. Considered AS ro-
zee the story OF the eel has the
mon basis of all romances-the
tiore OF the sexes.
Though cells have been familiar
Known IN all countries from time
iem"rial, II was not until the
or part OF the nineteenth cen
that ndturalists discovered the
lie Of Tn. baby eel, and. indeed.
then they did not recognize
Interesting Infant when they
HIN. They had long known
under another name. uncou-
us Of his real lineage.
'fore these very modern investi-
ons 1t was only known that
g GELS migrated from the rivers
ard the ocean in autumn. ana
In spring transparent little
could hc found under stones
TX IN. shores. These assembled
streams. there 10 remain until
attained the adult stage. after
ward. having lived almost To the
nt their ii"nS without ever re-
iucins their Kind.
Horn somewhere at Sea.
WAS. a.: course, evident that
young cells we're born son"w mere
The 6ca water. for IL was only
he shore that the little ones made
appearance. Yet they could
.r lee found In the spawn stage.
re were no mother ellis about. SO
e whatever OF their birth They
not come swarm!ng in from tn.
,cr waters; they Simp!y appeared
'pring on the shores under tho
tcs. In the unmistakuble form OF
t"O lnchcs long, with trans =
ant bodies. or their history
birth up 70 th!a stage nothing
the same time there were known
ishcrmcn and naturalistE very pc
ar little ribbOn-lik" fishes. some
u larger than tn. It'll" cells and.
them, transparent nf body, which
round not only along the shores.
also near the sur!ac. OF the sea
IRON shorc, They We're remark :
for the iltklcncsA OF their heads,
oh gave them I'll. Latin name. Leu
'phali. They were sometimes cap
I'd In tn" tropical currents OF tho
tntic.
Were These Ecisf
1864 the naturalist GIL first VEN
81 the suggestion that the mys-
GUS l.. ptoccphalG wcr" really cells.
an earlier stage OF d.Nclc pmen,
the little ones found On IN.
reg; in other words. that these
t,Grcs formed the missing link
Sccn the transparent GELS OF the
,horc and the eggs. or gpaw n,
"a which they were born, far out
ca This suggestion proved 10 be
Get. and later the transformation
enroecnhaii int" young GELS Was
!nliy Observed.
nc latest chapter o'-thc story. rs
been said. i6 written by the Dan
naturalist schmidt. He has dis
red IA. spawning places OF both
Ehropcan ana the American GELS
former. W" says, seems to have
enter In latitude - degrees north
80 degrees west. which lies south
81 Bermuda, while the Am-rl-
cells spawn IN II zone west and
% the European ground. but
Yrlapnlrg ii.
ere. then, In the middle OF tho
tern part of The Scrth Atlantic
AZ. ~ the cradle OF the cells OF
Europe and America So FAR
e gliding Inhabitants of che rivers
e. from their lifelong homes FOR
Which, considered from the view