ABSTRACT
The recent valuable experiments of Savart and of Dr. Wollaston have added to our stock of information several important and hitherto unnoticed phenomena relating to audition; but notwithstanding the investigations of these distinguished experimentalists, and though the physiology of the ear has been an object of unceasing attention for many centuries, yet we are far from possessing a perfect knowledge of the functions of the various parts of this organ. In the case of the vocal articulations, the augmentation is accompanied by a reedy sound, occasioned by the strong agitations of the tympanum. The Microphone is calculated only for hearing sounds when it is in immediate contact with sonorous bodies: when they are diffused by their transmission through the air, this instrument will not afford the slightest assistance.
