Kesearches on the Discharfice of the Electric Ortjan. 



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Oscillogram No. 40 (Plate XVIL), whicli is the same kind of 

 experiment as No. Ill and in which the breadths of the stimuli are 

 very small, was examined and tlie constants were calculated as 

 in No. :]7 (Plate VIIL). 



Tlie following is the table of the constants obtained: — 



Taiîli: III. 



()scillo2;rani No, 4<). 



Left organ, the same prepara- 

 tion as No. :38. 



Temperature of the organ: 11-5° C. 



Tlie data and the details ol the observed and the com[)uted num- 

 bers are given in the Append! .\. 



Here the modal latent period is constant again, and // seems 

 to increase with the decrease of the heiglit of the discharge. The 

 agreement between the calculated and the observed curves is 

 shown in Plate VIII. The values of // in No. .'>? and No. 40 are 

 equal to :^0 in order of magnitude. 



Tlius having proved the close agreement of tlie theoretical 

 formula with the experimental curves, we shall next seek the source 

 of the discrepancy between the constants of No. 54 and those of No. 

 37 and No. 40. In the foregoing considerations, we did not take 

 into account the effect of the stimulus due to the break of the current 



