THE ETHER OF SPACE mounted. The whirling machine strongly bolt- ed down to a stone pier independent of the floor; the optical frame independently supported by a gallows frame from other piers. The centrifugal mercury speed-indicator is visible in front, and Mr. Davies is regulating the speed. At the back is seen a boiler-plate screen for the observer with his eye at the telescope. (See Frontispiece.) The expense of the apparatus was borne by my friend, the late George Holt, shipowner, of Liverpool. Fig. 16 exhibits something like the appearance seen in the eye-piece, with the interference bands on each side of the middle band, and with the Fis. 16.—Approximate appearance of the inter- ference bands and micrometer Tires as seen in the eye-piece of the telescope of the Ether machine. micrometer wires set in position—each moved by an independent micrometer head. The straight vertical wire was usually set in the centre of the 80