THE ETHER OF SPACE an electric nor a magnetic transverse field confers viscosity upon the ether, nor enables moving matter to grip and move it rotationally, Question of A PossipLe LoNncGITuDINAL Macnetic Drtrt, Later I tried a longitudinal magnetic field also; arranging a series of four large electric bobbins or long coils along the sides of a square inscribed at 45° in the optical square (Figs. 11 and 13), so that the light went along their axes. The details of this experiment have been only partially recorded, but the salient points are to be found stated in the Philosophical Magazine for April, 1907, pages 495-500. The result was again negative; that is to say, a magnetic field causes no perceptible accelera- tion in a beam of light sent along the lines of force. The extra velocity that could have been observed would have been jth of a millimeter per second, or 16 miles per hour, for each c.g.s. unit of field intensity. Another mode of expressing the result is that the difference of magnetic potential applied, namely, a drop of two million c.g.s. units of magnetic potential, does not hurry light along it by so much as Sth part of a wave-length. There may be reasons for supposing that some much slower drift or conveyance than this 56