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TRANSACTIONS OF THE TEXAS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 
curves were obtained in several different rooms, of different sizes, and on 
different floors; most of the work having been done in a third-floor room 
90x130 feet. In all cases the results were the same. It is, therefore, be- 
lieved that reflections have not played any important part in the result. 
The most satisfactory" explanation for the various phenomena now appears 
to me to be the assumption that the vibrator produces a large number of 
waves of different lengths, constituting as it were a continuous spectrum 
of at least two different maxima, and, though they are all rapidly damped, 
they have sufficient duration to produce standing waves in both air and 
wires. 
It is my purpose to investigate the matter more fully, particularly to 
compare the nodes given by a resonator of 360 c.m. circumference with 
those given by one of 220 c.m.. 
Great as is my admiration of Hertz’s work, I am not fully persuaded 
that he verified Maxwell’s brilliant theory of one ether for light, heat, 
electricity, and magnetism. 
