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horizontal coordinate of the new figure, whatever its elevation in 

 the original curve may be, since every reversal of the movement of 

 the stirrup causes at once a movement of the parts of the parti- 

 tion next to the windows and only later a movement of the follow- 

 ing parts. So we continue transplanting each section of the 

 curve, alternately upright and upside down. This figure (Fig. 12) 



Tone 2 



Tone 3 



Figure I2. The combination 2 and 3. First characteristic 

 phase. (A is identical with G.) Compare figure 11 



is to be interpreted in the same way as figure 10. The distances 

 from x^ to x^, x^ to x,, and x, to x^ represent three pieces 

 of the partition, x ^ being next to the windows. During the 

 unit of time, which is here the period from A to G, all the 

 nerve ends located between .r„ and x receive, as is easily 

 seen, three shocks, counting the number of shocks received 

 by the number of downs (or ups, since this distinction between 

 the physiologically effective and ineffective direction of jerk- 

 ing is arbitrary, for want of better knowledge as to the man- 

 ner of excitation of the nerve ends). All the nerve ends be- 

 tween jf, and x^ receive, as the figure shows, counting from 

 left to right, two shocks in the unit of time. And all the 



