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...thousands of different types of fish, only five can produce electricity. Best known of these is the electric eel (Electrophorus electricus), a brownish-grey, snake-like creature that is not an eel at all but belongs to the carp and catfish family. Especially abundant in the Amazon and Orinoco Rivers in South America, electric eels have six electricity-generating organs extending lengthwise through their tails, which make up four-fifths of the eel's body. If a man or animal touches an electric eel, he will be mildly shocked. But if he were brash enough to grab both...
...painted frog from the Amazon, whose jewel-like skin contains poison used by natives for arrows and darts...
...meantime he had explored the Amazon, dug up Inca remains in Peru, penetrated the Forbidden City of Lhasa in Tibet...
...Explorations in the Amazon Basin," a lecture illustrated with motion pictures will be given today by Alexander H. Rice '01, professor of Geographical Explorations, at 5 o'clock. Repeated for the benefit of those absent from the first lecture on December 10, it is scheduled to be held at the Geographical institute...
...Hamilton Rice, veteran of seven expeditions to the Amazon country, Director of the Institute of Geographical Exploration and Honorary Curator of South American Archaeology and Ethnology in the Peabody Museum, will lecture on "Explorations in the Amazon Basin" at 4 o'clock today at the Institute...