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Show 302 COMMUNICATIONS BT ELECTRO-VEGETATION. \V, H. WEEKES, ESQ 303 This E'xperiment was not desi n d . h researches on the development olu: · ~It . a~y ref~ren~e to my o.f these creatures appeared inciden~af ect.riCa _ aca! 1, but swarms hme the above note was made many f :~Its p.ogress, anJ, at the the miniature forest on the rn'nO"us 0 em were s<>en inhabiting amazingly' and to attain a l~rgero siz'e ~~ae~·e they seem~d to thrive About the autumn of the year 1844 th ~ny I have hitherto &een. t~e positive side. of the arrangement' the u;gu~ had extended to Circular band; and it is not the lea' t us ormmg a continuous brief history • that immediately on ths remalk~ble feature of its the luxuriance and beauty of its veget:/~omp etwn of this event, to decline. A portion of the f cr JOn wer~ observed rapidly glass, but it is no lonO"cr an obJ·~~~~o~U:p m~sls. sthll adheres to the To what ext ttl ·0 • eCJa m crest. to the action of~n ~i~~~~~ular andt beautiful production is indebted traversing the. saccharin~cl~ur.~cn. constant~y, and. for a long ti"le, J}Jeared, I am not re ared IqUI 'm C?nnectlon Wlth which it ap. say but the £oll p .P ' by t~e assistance of facts, at present to ' . owmg suggestions occur to m · d analogical reasons i~ support of its electrical O~I·gmi.Inn ats strong progress , na ure, and th~:~o~u~lrrr to~e~ably conversan.t with ~ost ·of the know~ fun i of the one in :~esti~~~a~o~:~J~~;nJ:g with anybspe<?ies with wTtich 2d The glazed ear 1 • 1 c ' or even e said to resemble Oth~ ~ylindder to'cat.ch i~:fid~~!J~f;~idul!~ ~f~h~~f~~\Sthbcotftom ~t r1gmate , a consJderabl t' _, ' ungus !~":.b~~;.~io,~·~:;~ :o~~:~~f:rf~~:inoiht~:i.~~}~~~~~F~;·~:i~ de;:~f J~:i~~~e!r~o have had !ts beginning i£1 a portion of s~g~~~ r;:· ~~~~f ~~~~ s~rfuc~hvt~~~';s~d~~::.~~~~~:tr~h~~j~!~~~~~~~j kind or that IFa I?ns o mould!ness, no appearance of a funaoid within the un~le~t~~~!~ j~~~tahon, could at any time be dete~ted 3d. The commencement of the f t · . ~~a:::~:i!;'\~ tth. n~g~tive ~ol~ of ~~~~~~··~g:.!.C::;: ~~~·;~~~!f.~':. }~~~·~~~~~~:n::~~l£~~Fr.3~: Zo1\~~~i~~~~!~:iE~~~~~;;l~~~ orgamzahon of this remarkable species of vegetation. e over the Sandwich, 5th Sept., 1845. W. H. WEEKEI. f'o tlu .flrdho1· of " Vestiges of the Natu1·al Histo1-y of Creation" |