176 
Inch and three lines in breadth, by two inches long; I then covered the 
superficial parts of these corks with some blotting paper that I had moistened, 
after which I put each piece of cork into a small vase, filled with water, and 
sowed about sixty seeds of Mustard on each of them. 
This vase 1 electrified from that day to the end of the term, when the 
experiment was finished; and that from seven in the morning until ten at 
night. 
May 9 th, at eight o’clock in the morning I perceived some of the electri¬ 
fied seeds had germinated. 
At eleven in the morning some of those in the non-electrified vase had 
done the same. 
May 10 th, I counted twenty-eight of the electrified grains had opened. 
Eighteen of the non-electrified only, had done the same. 
In the evening there were thirty-two of th z former\ and only twenty-six 
of the latter . 
May 11 th, at six in the morning there was upon the cork, in the electri¬ 
fied vase, fifty-four grains that had unfolded themselves; and upon the cork 
in the non-electrified vase, the number in that state amounted only to thirty- 
four. 
On that day I measured the plants in the vases. 
Non-electrified Plants. 
Lines. 
Twenty.. 4 ... 4 ^ 
The rest .... 4 ... 3| 
To these most conclusive Experiments in favour of electricity, I shall add 
but one, taken from the Abbe Bartholon. 
THIRTEENTH EXPERIMENT. 
After having recorded upwards of fifty experiments, conducted at different 
seasons, and repeated through different years, all in favour of electricity, the 
Abbe relates the following, which was made by electrifying the water in 
which he steeped some seeds. 
Electrified Plants. 
Lines. 
Twenty ... 6 ... 7 
The rest. 4 ... 5 
