Recovery phenomena occurring after plastic deformation have frequently been studied in copper of different purity and up to high degrees of deformation (e. g. (1 to 3)). With higher purity (but also with higher deformation), recovery stage V will shift toward lower annealing temperatures. Zone-melted copper recrystallizes already at room temperature with activation energies in the order of the migration energy of the vacancies (4, 5). This paper reports on results obtained with zone- The experiments were made using an apparatus described earlier (6); pre-treatment of the samples was also similar to that reported in the paper quoted. Below 90 OK the samples were annealed by indirect heating; below 20 C in ethyl alcohol; and above that temperature in distillated water o r oil. The samples were protected thermally by a vacuum casing (6) such that a change of baths could not cause any disturbing heating of the samples.