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LET me commence by congratulating you on the circumstance that this School and the Literary Society connected with it are known over a much more extensive area than Whitechapel. It is some time ago since I first heard of the work which you are attempting to do, and which indeed to a large extent you are doing, in this part of London. All friends of Science must deeply sympathise with your efforts, and I looked upon it as my bounden duty to come here and lecture when asked to do so. I have one more remark to offer: as I knew that my audience would consist if not altogether of old students of Science in this school, still of those largely interested in mental culture and in the acquisition of useful knowledge, I thought it right to ask you to follow me into a region which a few men in lands far apart are now investigating—a region which lies outside the known, and which is being explored by means of the spectroscope. I hope to be able to suggest a few thoughts to some of you, in case you have worked with that instrument, and I hope also to be able to place before those who have not, many facts with which they are already acquainted, in a new point of view.
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LOCKYER, J. Atoms and Molecules Spectroscopically Considered * . Nature 10, 69–71 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/010069a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/010069a0