60 SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 



Hermaphrodite Fijli. 



Hermaphrodite I n Vol. XXI. of the " New Tranfaclions of the Royal Aca- 

 demy of Sciences at Stockholm" is an account of an eel (gadus 

 lota) in which eggs and foft roe were found at the fame time* 

 It is by profeflbr J. G. Pipping. c 



Experiment calculated to prove that the Laws of Gakanifm appear 

 to differ from thofe of Eleclricity. By Lag rave, Member 

 of the Galvanic Society *. 



Suppofed differ- The experiments which I fubmit to the public have ap- 



the^eaHrLd P eared to me to differ from the Iaws of eledricity, in this re- 

 galvanic fluids, fpect, that the galvanic fluid feeks the mod: intimate affinities, 



and that electricity appears to endeavour to efcape at the firft 



touch. 



My Experiments were as follows : 



Experiments I raifed a pile of feventy pair of plates, of copper and 



du&or. ° nSCOn " zmc > perfectly free from oxidation ; I then applied, to the 



zinc end, a conductor fix ells long, which 1 patted once round 



my arm, then twice round my body, above my cloaths, from 



whence I conducted it round my thigh and my leg, alfo once 



round each, and fecured its lower extremity to my foot, in a 



Galvanic mock bucket of warm water : I wetted my right hand, (the great 



perceived m the con ductor was round my arm, thi^h and leg, on the left fide) 

 moiftened hand ; J r ° 6> ' 



and having brought my tore-nnger to the copper end, J ex- 

 perienced the moft lively (hock in this hand and arm, but felt 

 nothing from the great conductor of the zinc end. Surprized 

 not having had the flighteft fenfation from this pole, I repeated 

 the experiment with the fame effect ; and at firft believed 

 that, in this cafe, the galvanic fluid was governed by the laws 

 of electricity ; that is to fay, that it was difpofed to pafs off 

 in the foot, when by the fhorteft way ; but I quickly difcovered another caufe, 

 made with sTfe- wnen > on taking a copper wire, two feet long, in my right 

 condor* con- hand, and placing it in contact with the copper pole, I felt 

 ttor, the fhock in the foot immerfed in the bucket of water.. I was 



equally aftonifhed at receiving the fhock in my foot, notwith- 



* From the Journal de PhyGque, Ventofe, An. XI. 



withftanding 



