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LORD WROTTESLEY,
On
Plucker,
By
Professor Julius
of
With
led.
which he
or
that the
by the poles of
he disclaims any intention of assigning a physical cause
optic axis
is
attracted
repelled
the magnet
to the
results of observation,
case of crystals of a
first instance, to
more complicated
existed.
character, he
was
In the
led, in
the
not hold
when the
crystal
But
was examined in
all directions,
and not
For the hypothesis of one or two axes acted upon by the magnet,
he substituted another similar hypothesis.
crystals
he now conceived an
its
crystallographic axis.
ellipsoid,,
the poles of the magnet not being too near each other*
449
between them in exactly the same way.
will be directed
an
generalization,
In the
of revolution.
met
with, that
possess, in
is,
round
stal
it,
are
is
'
common
of these axes
is
same way
directed in the
cular ellipsoid,
will
amorphous
when
ellipsoid.
influenced
its particles
by a magnetic pole
at a finite distance,
finite
Hence,
may be regarded
and
their
before proceeding to
theory
an
itself (or
it,
By means
But
to confirm Poisson's
ellipsoid of finite
pole.
it
it),
with respect to
ellipsoid,
vations
made on two
carefully
worked
by M. Fessel of Cologne.
The
with reference to an
results obtained
amorphous
ellipsoid,
complete agreement.
tion within a crystal
crvstals,
and manifested a
ellipsoid*
As
if
450
crystal be suspended along
axially,
As
equatorially.
set,
one
and
least elasticity, so
mentioned.
Among
crystals, the
The
by the planes of
The
symmetry.
crystalline
from the
The use
of both cylinders and circular plates, cut with their axes in the
same
direction, obviated
attri-
buting the setting to the external form, since, so far as was due to
circular plate
would
set
in rectangular directions.
Formicate of copper
differs
crystals in
having but
by the
The
form.
crystalline
In
symmetry
netic axes
their positions
list
were determined.
are given,
class,
He
also
crystals, of
to their
which instances
have
all