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FEW conversaziones of the Royal Society have exceeded in interest the one held on Wednesday of last week. Many of the exhibits were very striking, while all of them presented novel features. Physical science predominated, and Röntgen photography attracted a large share of attention throughout the evening. Mr. A. A. C. Swinton had an elaborate exhibit to llustrate experimentally the production of Röntgen rays, and the visible and photographic effects produced by them. By means of several binocular cryptoscopes, all who so desired were able to see shadow pictures of the bones in the living body, and of objects enclosed in opaque boxes, while Röntgen photographs of the hands of many persons were taken during the evening.
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The Royal Society Conversazione. Nature 54, 36–38 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/054036a0
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