Note 156 — Chapter IX
Reading edition
Observations of Electric Currents in Vegetable Structures: by Golding Bird, Esq., F.L.S.; Magazine of Natural History, vol. x. p. 240. In this paper Dr. Bird remarks that his experiments lead to the conclusion that vegetables cannot become so charged with electricity as to afford a spark; that electrical currents of feeble tension are always circulating in vegetable tissues; and that electrical currents are developed during germination from chemical action.