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THE lecture commenced with a description of a home-made spectroscope of considerable power. The lens, a plano-convex of 6 inches aperture and 22 feet focus, received the rays from the slit, and finally returned them to a pure spectrum formed in the neighbourhood. The skeleton of the prism was of lead; the faces, inclined at 70°, were of thick plate-glass cemented with glue and treacle. It was charged with bisuiphide of carbon, of which the free surface (of small area) was raised above the operative part of the fluid. The prism was traversed twice, and the effective thickness was 5½ inches, so that the resolving power corresponded to 11 inches, or 28 cm., of CS2. The liquid was stirred by a perforated triangular plate, nearly fitting the prism, which could be actuated by means of a thread within reach of the observer. The reflector was a flat, chemically silvered in front.
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Polish 1 . Nature 64, 385–388 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/064385a0
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