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SOME time ago your correspondent, Mr. Benham, corrected the mistake that mother-of-pearl owes its beauty to diffracted light. The error had lived long, partly, perhaps, because it came from an authority so eminent as Sir David Brewster.
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CROFT, W. Colours of Butterflies not due to Diffraction. Nature 65, 198 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/065198d0
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