About ten months ago, I had the honour of communicating to the Royal Society, a description of a new instrument for ascertaining the Magnetic Dip. Having made very considerable improvements in the apparatus, by means of which some curious results on the magnetic laws, especially those that relate to the production and annihilation of magnetism in iron, have been obtained,—I now beg leave to submit to the Society a drawing and description of my improved instrument, together with an outline of some of the most interesting experiments made with it. Many of the results appear to me to be new; if so, their importance will be my excuse for repeating some parts of the description given in the former paper. It has been long known that iron might be rendered magnetical by percussion; but I am not aware that the precise effect of position has ever been suggested, I remain, &c.