. Eight lectures on the signs of life from their electrical aspect . * I am indebted to Professor Ayrton for the suggestion of the reciprocal megohm as a convenient unit of conductance, and for the further suggestion of " gemmho " or 7 as its convenient name and symbol, thus utilising Lord Kelvin's proposal to take resistance names written backwards to denote their conductance reciprocals. Kohl- rausch's unit of conductivity i /c is the same as Kelvin's " mho," and is equal to 1,000,000 7. I have also to acknowledge the kind assistance of Dr T. Martin Lowry in connection wi


. Eight lectures on the signs of life from their electrical aspect . * I am indebted to Professor Ayrton for the suggestion of the reciprocal megohm as a convenient unit of conductance, and for the further suggestion of " gemmho " or 7 as its convenient name and symbol, thus utilising Lord Kelvin's proposal to take resistance names written backwards to denote their conductance reciprocals. Kohl- rausch's unit of conductivity i /c is the same as Kelvin's " mho," and is equal to 1,000,000 7. I have also to acknowledge the kind assistance of Dr T. Martin Lowry in connection with conductivity measurements.


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