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GERMINATION 



It would not serve any useful purpose to give a detailed 

 account of all the tests, but the following tabulated state- 

 ment may be of interest : 



The contacts were occasionally varied so as to change the 

 polarity and where no figures are given in the fourth or 

 fifth columns it may be taken to mean that the subject 

 was earthed in air or in vacuo, as shown. 



There is not in the above, I submit, nor was there in any 

 other experiment, evidence of polarisation which need be 

 considered. The third and fourth laurel leaves and two 

 of the Hydrangea leaves exhibit some loss which might 

 be attributed to polarisation were it not for the contradic- 

 tory testimony of the cut Apple. The loss was, I believe, 

 due to the changing character of one of the contacts but 

 even if it be called polarisation it has no material bearing 

 upon the experimental results, which go to show that the 

 phenomena of so-called currents from animal and vegetable 

 skin, etc., etc., have their origin in charge absorbed from 

 the surrounding air. 



