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 436 With the help of this law, which is not altogether imaginary, I now arrive at the equations which make known for each case all the individual circumstances constituting the permanent state of the chemical separation in the galvanic circuit; I have, however, neglected the further use of them, as the present state of our experimental knowledge in this respect did not appear to me to repay the requisite trouble. Nevertheless, in order to compare in their general features the results of this examination with what has hitherto been supplied by experiments, I have fully carried out one particular case, and have found that the formula represents very satisfactorily the kind of wave of the force, as I have above described it.

Having thus given a slight outline of the contents of this Memoir, I will now proceed to the fundamental investigation of the individual points.

[To be continued.]