In these ‘Proceedings,’ I described some experiments on the influence of temperature on the value of Young’s Modulus for various metals. The results showed that the more fusible the metal, the greater was the variation of the modulus with temperature, and suggested that, roughly, the decrement of the modulus for a given rise of temperature was equal to the ratio of the modulus at absolute zero to the melting temperature and a constant (
i. e.
d
M/
dθ
= M
0
/(
θ
n
+
θ
')). Since Young’s Modulus is a complex constant, involving both rigidity and volume elasticity, it seemed worth while to examine the temperature effect on rigidity alone, and with this object in view I have recently carried out a further series of experiments on most of the metals previously tested. The apparatus used was a torsion-balance, shown diagrammatically in fig. 1. A vertical rod, A, is suspended by a long fine wire, B, and the test piece, C, in the form of a wire or narrow strip of plate, is clamped to the lower end of A, and also to the fixed support, D. The whole of this part of the balance can be immersed in a bath of fluid at any required temperature.