

SCIENTIFIC TRANSACTIONS 



ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY, 



VOLUME VII.— (SERIES II.) 



XIV. 



THE EESULTS OF AN ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENT, INVOLVING THE 

 RELATIVE MOTION OF THE EARTH AND ETHER, SUGGESTED BY 

 THE LATE PROFESSOR FITZ GERALD. 



BY 



FRED. T. TROUTON, D.Sc, F.R.S., 

 University Lecturer in Experimental Pliysics, Trinitj' College, Dublin. 



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