Abstract
LEEDS Naturalists' Field Club and Scientific Association, Sept. 15.—Mr. Edward Thompson, vice-president, in the chair.—Mr. James Abbott mentioned that he had gathered Butomus umbellatus in flower at Kirkstall, on Sept. 12. The plant had not been noted in the Leeds district for upwards of twenty years past, when it grew in the stream at the foot of Woodhouse Ridge.—Mr. Henry Pocklington, in conjunction with Mr. James Abbott, demonstrated the action of the induced current upon the protoplasmic gyrations in the cells of Vallisneria spiralis, by means of a simple electric slide and a small inductorium. The effect produced was very marked. The circulation of the protoplasm stopped almost instantly. It was, in fact, as was described by one of the members, as though a strong “break”were put on. The protoplasm was corrugated by the rapid contractions induced, and the results taken altogether were of the most interesting character. Mr. Pocklington will probably communicate a more complete description of his apparatus and its results at an early date.
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