Abstract
The paper describes an experiment designed to distinguish between two theories of secondary excitation of the first positive bands in nitrogen. The resonance radiation of nitrogen emitted from an electron beam is allowed to pass through a thin celluloid window which holds back metastable atoms. The results show that part, and possibly the whole, of the secondary excitation of the first positive bands is due to collisions of the second kind with molecules in the a1II state.
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