ABSTRACT
Thomson repeated the experiment in 1893, while in the midst of bringing out the third edition of Maxwell's Treatise and the third volume of his own Notes on Recent Researches. He found that the excess of hydrogen was not always at the cathode, but under certain conditions at the anode [7-2]. All in all, this finding must have shaken his faith in the electrolytic analogy; at any rate, he never referred to the subject in his later books [7-3].
