“…Many of the carrier electrolytes used were complexing agents and it was observed that the movement of a particular cation could be varied by changing the pH of the solution (Lederer andWard, 1951, 1952;mato, Diamond, Norris and Strain, 1952;Yasunaga and Shimomura, 1953;Strain, 1954, 1955;Engelke, Strain and Mepod, 1954;Evans and Strain, 1956;MacNevin and Dunton, 1957). Other studies used unreactive carrier electrolytes on which imorganic compounds were spotted in the form of a complexed species (Macek and Pribil, 1955 ;Miller, Pickering and Ward, 1956;Bruninx, Eeckhout and Gillis, 1956). These studies indicated that the behaviour of the added complexes could not be interpreted completely in terms of the relative stability of the com-Some aspects of the processes involved in the movement of a complexed species on paper 'under the influence of an electric field have now been examined and the results of these studies are reported in this paper.…”