Fluorescence in violation of Stokes' law, excited in an alcoholic solution of specially purified fluorescein, was compared by a photoelectric method with the reciprocal emission when fluorescent and exciting wave-lengths are interchanged. The following theoretical equation, recently proposed by the author, was found to be largely verified: f yx /fxy = ^xJy/\Jx. Here/ is the exciting power, i.e. fyxdXy is the emission of fluorescent energy from unit volume in the wave-length range d\ y when the fluorescing substance is illuminated with unit density of exciting radiation of wave-length \ x , f xy is the same thing with the wave-lengths interchanged, and J x , J v are the densities of black-body radiation for these two wave-lengths at the temperature of the fluorescing substance. A peculiar interest attaches to this equation because it contains no unknown constants.Fluorescence, excitation and absorption curves for the same fluorescein were also determined with moderate accuracy. The fluorescence curves show a single maximum around 5240A but change shape as the exciting wave-length is varied. The excitation curve for fixed incident energy shows a maximum around 5000 for fluorescence at 5270; for other points in the fluorescence spectrum the maximum excitation occurs at shorter wave-lengths, e.g. at 4730 ± 80A for fluorescence at 5009 or 5582. The curves suggest two superposed bands of different width but with almost coincident peaks. The maximum absorption occurs around 4750.