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with the conductor, by means of a rod of metal. From the 3d of March to 
the 2 /th, I every hour, from morning to the evening, gave it an hundred 
turns with the wheel. 
March 15 th, in the evening, four grains of electrified rye rose, and early 
the next morning the rest appeared. 
March if, in the evening, two grains of the non-electrified rose, and six 
others appeared early the following day. 
March 19 , I measured the plants. 
Two of the stalks from the electrified grain were six lines and a half high, 
four five lines, and two three lines. 
Among the plants from the non-electrified grain, two were three lines 
high, others two lines and a half, and the shortest two lines. 
March 26 , two of the electrified rye plants were four inches and a half 
high; the greater part of them three inches and a half; and the smaller 
number two inches eleven lines and a half. 
Two of the non-electrified plants were three inches and a half; and the 
rest an inch ten lines and a half. So that there was a great disproportion 
between the electrified and non-electrified grains of rye. 
NINTH EXPERIMENT. 
March 30. I sowed, in two pots, as much lettuce seed as I could take 
up between my finger and thumb. I covered them with an equal quantity 
of mould; after which, I fixed on one of them, and electrified it in the fol¬ 
lowing manner. I insulated it by means of a cake of pitch, a rod of metal 
descending from the conductor rested upon the vase. I electrified it every 
hour, with three or four hundred turns of the wheel, and continued this pro¬ 
cess until April 8 th. 
April 4th, between five and six o’clock in the morning, the plants came 
up In the electrified pot; and at a quarter after five in the afternoon those in 
the non-electrified pot did the same. 
April 8 th, at six in the evening, I measured their respective heights. 
