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A CURIOUS thing in connection with colour having come under my notice, and never having before seen it remarked in any scientific journal, I take the liberty of bringing it before your notice; of it is new to you it will interest you, if not I must ask you to excuse me for troubling you. On looking through a piece of blue glass (of which I forward you a sample) at a plant or tree lit up by the sun, these leaves that are lit from behind, or rather by transmitted light, appear of a rich crunson, the other leave, seen only by reflected light, merely take the colour given by the glass. In the case of a geranium plant, those leaves become almost the same colour as the flowers. As a scientific fact, if new, it is curious.
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WOODBURY, W. Reflected and Transmitted Light. Nature 7, 481 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/007481a0
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