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THE propagation of the eel was a mystery not only to ordinary people, but also to naturalists, from the time of Aristotle to the end of the nineteenth century, and continued to be a mystery for years after the breeding and development of many other fishes, both marine and fresh-water, had been successfully studied and investigated. At present our knowledge of the development of the eel is almost but not quite complete, and the extraordinary facts of the matter have been brought to light chiefly by the adventurous and persevering efforts of the Danish naturalist. Dr. Johannes Schmidt, of Copenhagen, who has published a memoir on his researches in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London and has described them in articles in NATURE (August 22, 1912, and January 13, 1923).
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CUNNINGHAM, J. The Natural History of the Common Eel. Nature 113, 199–201 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/113199a0
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