ABSTRACT SCIENCE has to deplore the loss of an industrious but unobtrusive worker in the person of Jean-Mothée Gaugain, who died at the village of St. Martin d'Estreaux, near Bayeux, on

the 31st of May, 1880. His name is honourably associated with experimental researches in a good many of the less-frequented bye-paths of electrical science. Living in a time which may well

be regarded as the transition period, during which electricity has passed from the stage of a phenomenal and experimental science to one of exact mathematical relations, some of

Gaugain's investigations are already superseded by the later and more comprehensive researches of a younger generation. Yet he has done good work, which will live to carry down his name

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