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Considering how much Putrifaction contributes to the shining of Fishes, and the Air to Putrifa∣ction, I took a Fish, and hanging a piece in the Air a little before the time they usually grow luminous, I included another in Vacuo, to try whether the Fish would grow luminous there, or whether, tho' it appeared not to be so, yet when the Air was let in it would disclose its
Light; but the Attempt being twice made, the one was frustrated by the breaking of the Glass; and the other, by the peculiar Qualities of a Fish, which in the Air grew not luminous in the usual time, nor much beyond it.