tendency to rotate always in the same direction, or to use the same set of foot-rows for the purpose of righting themselves. In these individual specimens, therefore, we must conclude that the foot-rows thus employed are selected because of some slight accidental prepotency or superiority over the others; the animal has, as it were, thus much individual _character_ as the result of a slight prepotency of some of its nerve-centres over the others. Another question of still more interest arises out of these righting movements, namely, that as to their prompting cause. This question, however, I shall defer till later on, since it cannot be answered without the aid of experiments as distinguished from observation. _Stimulation._ In now quitting our observations on the natural movements of the Echinodermata, and beginning an account of the various experiments which we have tried upon these animals, I shall first take the experiments in stimulation. All the Echinodermata seek to escape from injury. Thus, for instance, if a Star-fish or an Echinus is advancing continuously in one direction, and if it be pricked or otherwise irritated on any part of an excitable surface facing the direction of advance, the animal immediately reverses that direction. There is one point of special interest concerning these movements of response to stimulation. The form of the animals and the distribution of the nervous system being, as I have before said, of geometrical regularity, it follows that by applying two stimuli simultaneously on two different aspects of the animal, the combined result of these two stimuli is that of furnishing a very pretty instance in physiology of the physical principle of the parallelogram of forces. Thus, for instance, if two stimuli of equal intensity be applied simultaneously at the opposite sides of a globular Echinus, the animal begins to walk in a direction at right angles to an imaginary line joining these two points. And, generally, wherever the two points of simultaneous stimulation may be situated, the direction of the animal's advance is the diagonal between them. As showing in more detail how very delicate is the physiological balancing of stimuli which may be produced in these organisms, and consequently the manner in which we are able to play, as it were, upon their geometrically disposed nervous systems in illustration of the mechanical principle of the composition of forces, I shall quote a series of observations. "1. Scraped with a scalpel the equator of an Echinus at two points opposite to each other--animal crawled at right angles to the line of injury. "2. Similarly scraped at the ab-oral pole--no effect. There was no reason why injury here should determine escape in one direction rather than in another. "3. Scraped similarly near the oral pole, and half-way between pole and equator--little or no effect.