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A paper was in part read, entitled "Experimental Researches in Electricity," Twelfth Series, by Michael Faraday, Esq., D.C.L., F.R.S., &c.

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, by M. 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.

Eaperimental Researches in Electricity: Twelfth Series. By Michael Faraday, Esq., D.C.L., F.R.S., Fullerian Professor of Physiology 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 equilibrium, and imply a transit of the electrical forces from the charged body to