58. Electrical Phenomena in Houses. 
Arr. ViL—Zlectrical Phenomena in Houses. 
_ On the Electrical Phenomena observed in certain houses in New 
Pork; by Ex1as Loomis, Professor of Mathematics and Nat- 
ural Philosophy i in New York University. . 
Read before the American Association at the Baltimore meeting, May, 1858. 
Ar the meeting of the American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science held at New Haven in August, 1850, I gave 
an account of some remarkable electrical phenomena observed 
in certain houses in New York. That account was received at 
the time with some surprise; but it soon appeared that similar 
hous near ed had been o served in a mu 
with Silane 
“he winter S: 1856-7 I spent in ea so mentioned the 
meeting of the British Association at Dublin, and made a show 
communication on the same subject to that Association. 
facts were considered very remarkable, and I could n ot lela 
that an similar had ever been observed in mis art of 
Europe. I then decided to improve the first opportunity on my 
Teturn to New York, to verify my former observations, and to 
e the concurrent testimony of a second witness to corrob- 
fatements. The house in which my oes observ- 
in 1850 had been made was the house o . W. Cat- 
a merchant of New York, who resides in poartcas th street. 
ts 4 the case to Mr. Cat tlin, he gave me full liberty. 
ruary, 1858, the first oppor 
the morning of Feb. 11th the extern 
on the m r of the 12th it stood at 1 
