of his hand.  And a good deal of the time he reported two larger than one, not in the direction in which it really was larger, but the other way.  It seems to me that when the two cards were only 10 mm. apart the effect was somewhat as it would be if a solid object 4 mm. wide and 10 mm. long had been placed on the hand.  Such an object would be recognized as having greater mass than a line 4 mm. long.  But when the distance is 15 mm. the impression is less like that of a solid body but still not ordinarily like two objects.

In connection with the subject of diffusion the Vexirfehler is of interest.  An attempt was made to develop the Vexirfehler with the aesthesiometer.  Various methods were tried, but the following was most successful.  I would tell the subject that I was going to use the aesthesiometer and ask him to close his eyes and answer simply ‘one’ or ‘two.’  He would naturally expect that he would be given part of the time one, and part of the time two.  I carefully avoided any suggestion other than that which could be given by the aesthesiometer itself.  I would begin on the back of the hand near the wrist with the points as near the threshold as they could be and still be felt as two.  At each successive putting down of the instrument I would bring the points a little nearer together and a little lower down on the hand.  By the time a dozen or more stimulations had been given I would be working down near the knuckles, and the points would be right together.  From that on I would use only one point.  It might be necessary to repeat this a few times before the illusion would persist.  A great deal seems to depend on the skill of the operator.  It would be noticed that the first impression was of two points, and that each stimulation was so nearly like the one immediately preceding that no difference could be noticed.  The subject has been led to call a thing two which ordinarily he would call one, and apparently he loses the distinction between the sensation of one and the sensation of two.  After going through the procedure just mentioned I put one knob of the aesthesiometer down one hundred times in succession, and one subject (Mr. Meakin) called it two seventy-seven times and called it one twenty-three times.  Four of the times that he called it one he expressed doubt about his answer and said it might be two, but as he was not certain he called it one.  Another subject (Mr. George) called it two sixty-two times and one thirty-eight times.  A third subject (Dr. Hylan) called it two seventy-seven times and one twenty-three times.  At the end of the series he was told what had been done and he said that most of his sensations of two were perfectly distinct and he believed that he was more likely to call what seemed somewhat like two one, than to call what seemed somewhat like one two.  With the fourth subject (Mr. Dunlap) I was unable to do what I had done with the others.  I could get him to call one two for four or five times,