Experiments are described on the flow of liquid with negligible kinetic energy through cones of very large angle, where peculiar results are to be expected owing to the velocity-gradient in the direction of motion and the corresponding forces due to viscosity. With converging flow through cones of semi-angle not greater than 90°, the velocities and reversal of radial pressure-gradient agree with the theory. For larger angles of cone a reversal of velocity is found, but not in the way predicted by the theory. One of the postulates is not satisfied, and the theory is therefore not applicable.