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WITH reference to Mr. Sedley Taylor's interesting note on Fluid Films, allow me to say that if a drop of water, clinging to the outside of a glass goblet, be lightly dusted with lycopodium powder, and a fiddle-bow be drawn across the edge of the glass, the drop will exhibit vortices, rotating in opposite directions.
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TOMLINSON, C. Fluid Films. Nature 17, 62 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/017062a0
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