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FOR some time I have been taking an active interest in the phenomena of colour, and have read with much pleasure the papers of Mr. Strutt and other gentlemen, and the abstract of the interesting lecture recently delivered at the Royal Institution by Prof. Maxwell. I have repeated many of the experiments of these observers, and have successfully exhibited them in public in a modified form, and in a way which can be readily repeated by other lecturers without the aid of the elaborate contrivance used by Prof. Maxwell. The following experiments make no pretension to rigid accuracy, but are merely described as striking lecture-table demonstrations of well-ascertained but little known scientific facts. I use the lime light for their exhibition, as it suits my convenience better than the electric light, though many lecturers prefer the latter.
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ALLEN, A. Lecture Experiments on Colour. Nature 4, 346 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/004346a0
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