PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE ROYAL SOCIETY. 



1838. No. 32. 



Februar}^ 15, 1838. 

 DAVIES GILBERT, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



A paper was in part read, entitled " Experimental Pvesearches in 

 Electricity," Twelfth Series, by Michael Faraday, Esq., D.C.L., 

 F.R.S., &c. 



February 22, 1838. 



FRANCIS BAILY, Esq., V.P. andTreas., in the Chair. 



William Thomas Denison, Esq., R.E., and Joseph Locke, Esq., 

 were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The reading of a paper, entitled, " Experimental Researches in 

 Electricity," Twelfth Series, byM. Faraday, Esq., D.C.L., F.R.S.. 

 was resumed. 



March 1, 1838. 



The Right Honourable the EARL of BURLINGTON, Vice- 

 President, in the Chair. 



Alexander Wilson, Esq., was elected a Fellow of the Society. 



The reading of a paper, entitled " Experimental Researches in 

 Electricity," Twelfth Series, by Michael Faraday, Esq., D.C.L., 

 F.R.S., &c., was resumed and concluded. 



Experimental Researches in Electricity : Twelfth Series. By Mi- 

 chael Faraday, Esq., D.C.L., F.R.S., Fullerian Professor of Phy- 

 siology in the Royal Institution of Great Britain. 



The object of the present series of researches is to examine how 

 far the principal general facts in electricity are explicable on the 

 theory adopted by the author, and detailed in his last memoir, re- 

 lative to the nature of inductive action. The operation of a body 

 charged with electricity, of either the positive or negative kind, on 

 other bodies in its vicinity, as long as it retains the whole of its 

 charge, may be regarded as simple induction, in contradistinction to 

 the effects which follow the destruction of this statical equihbrium, 

 and imply a transit of the electrical forces from the charged body to 



