Note 14 — Chapter X · RESPONSE IN METALS

Following another line of inquiry I obtained response to electric stimulus in inorganic substances using the method of conductivity variation (see ‘De la Généralité des Phénomènes Moléculaires Produits par l’Electricité sur la Matière Inorganique et sur la Matière Vivante,’ Travaux du Congrès International de Physique, Paris, 1900; and also ‘On Similarities of Effect of Electric Stimulus on Inorganic and Living Substances,’ British Association 1900. See Electrician). To bring out the parallelism in all details between the inorganic and living response, I have in the following chapters used the method of electro-motive variation employed by physiologists.