Note 53 — Chapter V · SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES: THIRD PERIOD.

It is right to add that what, according to the theory explained in the text, must be the correct explanation of the peculiar phenomena of magnetic induction depending on magnecrystallic properties was clearly stated in the form of a conjecture by Faraday in his twenty-second series in the following terms: “Or we might suppose that the crystal is a little more apt for magnetic induction, or a little less apt for diamagnetic induction, in the direction of the magnecrystallic axis than in other directions” (Sir William Thomson, Philosophical Magazine, 1851, or “Papers on Electrostatics and Magnetism,” p. 476).