NOLLET'S EXPERIMENTS. 



lines high." He has no doubt that electricity accelerates 

 vegetation, although it seems to him that the plants thus 

 forced are not as hardy as those which grow under natural 

 conditions. 



ABBE NOLLET'S EXPERIMENTS IN ELECTRIFYING ANIMALS AND 

 VEGETABLES. 1 



1 Reproduced in reduced fac simile from Nollet's Recherches sur les 

 Causes Particulieres des Phenome'nes Ijlectriques. Paris, 1749. The 

 hand on the right holds a vessel of water, which trickles slowly from the 

 spouts turned away from the electrified chain, but is projected in jets 

 from those in proximity thereto. 



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