the electrons of the atom are organized into some kind of 

 vortex motion. 



According to the theory advanced here the electron is a 

 vortex and Lord Kelvin's theory is merely advanced to the 

 electron. If the electron is made up of an assemblage of 

 smoke ring spirals, it is not an indestructable entity, because 

 it should In- possible to separate it into its individual spirals. 

 The spiral would thus be an indivisible entity, and if it were 

 disintegrated, it would dissolve into an unorganized mass of 

 ether particles and cease to be an entity. 



Faraday assumed lines of force to be tubes of force but, 

 he did not assign structure to them. Many texts assume that 

 lines of force are merely convenient fictions, like the axis of 

 the earth, but this idea is decidedly illogical. Lines of force 

 are real. They consist of an organization of matter of some 

 kind, because they offer resistance to the passage of a closed 

 conductor through or across them, and a fiction cannot do this. 



A New Frasera 



A. Davidson, M.D. 

 Frasera puberulenta, n. sp. 



Stout, about one foot high, microscopically minutely and 

 closely puberulenl throughout: Leaves white margined, radical 

 obovate, tapering to a broad petiole, sickle shaped when folded, 

 •'!-.") in. long, :; 4 in. wide, eauline 5-6 pairs l 1 /^-2 in. long by l /2 



in wide, broadly ovate; axillary flowers on long pedicels form- 

 ing umbellate cymes the whole forming a somewhat open 

 thyrsus: corolla greenish white with conspicuous purple (lots 

 above the oblong cordate gland; petals ' ( in. long, oblong, the 

 stoul midrib extended to form an acute tip: sepals narrowly 

 lanceolate, nearly one-half longer than the petals. 



Easily distinguished from F. neglecta, its nearest relative, 

 by the broader leaves, the open inflorescence, the conspicu- 

 ously nerved petal, and the genera] puberulence. 



Type in authors herb. No. 2705. Hill slope under pines, 

 alt. 9000, South Lake. Bishop Creek. Inyo Co.. Cal., duly 1911. 



Sec Plate 1, Frontispiece. 



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