An investigation has been made of the time-lag in magnetization in a permalloy wire to determine whether lag can be satisfactorily accounted for as due to eddy-currents alone or whether permalloy shows a marked magnetic viscosity such as has been observed by Ewing in iron wires. Eddy-current lag has been calculated approximately in a manner which takes into account the changing slope of the magnetization curve. A comparison of the calculated and observed magnetization-vs-time curves indicates that the effect is well accounted for as eddy-current lag alone. The eddy-current lag has also been calculated for an iron ring, for which the time-lag has been reported recently in a number of papers by Lapp. The time-lag which he observed is satisfactorily accounted for as eddy-current lag instead of as magnetic viscosity as he had supposed.