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mineral lode which was to him a rod of divination. ‘‘ Er riecht 
die Wahrheit,” said the lamented Kohlrausch, an eminent Ger- 
man, once in my hearing:—‘“ He smells the truth.” His eyes 
are now steadily fixed on this wonderful voltaic current, and he 
must learn more of its mode of transmission. 
On the 23d of May, 1833, he read a paper before the Royal 
Society, ‘On a new Law of Electric Conduction.” He found 
* ‘Faraday, sa Vie et ses Travaux,’ p. 20. 
Ax, Jour, ScIl.—Srconp Serres, Vou. XLVI, No. 137,—Sept., 1868. 
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