It remains to consider whether the ambulacral feet exhibit any general co-ordinated action, and, if so, whether this likewise depends upon the same nerve-centre. The fact already mentioned, that during progression an Echinus uses some of its feet for crawling and others for feeling its way, is enough to suggest that all the feet are co-ordinated by a nerve-centre. But in order to be quite sure about the fact of there being a general co-ordination among all the feet, we tried the following experiments. I have already described the righting movements which are performed by an Echinus when the animal is inverted, and it will be remembered that in this animal the manoeuvre is effected by means of the feet alone. At first sight this might almost seem sufficient to prove the fact of a general co-ordination among the feet; but further reflection will show that it is not so. For the feet being all arranged in regular series, when one row begins to effect the rotation of the globe, it may very well be that its further rotation in the same direction is due only to the fact that the slight tilt produced by the pulling of the first feet in the series A, B, C gives the next feet in the series D, E, F an opportunity of reaching the floor of the tank; their adhesions being established, they would tend by their pulling to increase still further the tilt of the globe, thus giving the next feet in the series an opportunity of fastening to the floor of the tank, and so on. In order, therefore, to see whether these righting movements were due to nervous co-ordination among the feet, or merely to the accident of the serial arrangement of the feet, we tried the experiments which I shall now detail.