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and removing the sensitive flame to/', some distance be- 

 hind the reed, it burned there tranquilly, though the reed 

 was sounding. Again lighting the gas as it issued from 

 the brass tubes, the sound reflected from the heterogeneous 



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air threw the sensitive flame into violent agitation. Here 

 we had imitated the aerial echoes heard when standing 

 behind the syren-trumpet at the South Foreland. The 

 experiment is extremely simple, and in the highest degree 

 impressive. 



The explosive rapidity of dynamite marks it as a sub- 

 stance specially suitable for the production of sound. At 

 the suggestion of Professor Dewar, Mr. McEoberts lias 

 carried out a series of experiments on dynamite, with 

 extremely promising results. Immediately after the 

 delivery of the foregoing lecture I was informed that Mr. 

 Brock proposed the employment of dynamite in the 

 Collinson rocket. 



