Paper, 'Experiments on the discharge of Leyden jars' by Oliver Joseph Lodge Lodge writes: 'The following experiments among others were made in the course of 1888, beginning in February of that year. A brief account of the early experiments, with some of the deductions from them, was given in a couple of lectures to the Society of Arts in March, 1888, on Lightning Conductors; and in the ‘Electrician’ vols. 21, 22, 23, under the same title, a number of others were published at length, viz., the series of experiments relating to "the alternative path."' Annotations in pencil and ink. Subject: Physics / Electricity Received 4 May 1891. Read 4 June 1891. A version of this paper was published in volume 50 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Experiments on the discharge of Leyden jars'. 1891