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THOSE of you who know best how the Society of Arts always places itself in the forefront of any movement which is likely to benefit mankind by the application of the various sciences to the practical affairs of life, may recollect that, as nearly as may be thirty years ago, the dawn of a new science was brought before an audience in this room. If I look, no longer to the Journal, but to the “Transactions,” of the Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, as far back as the year 1843, † I find a paper there by the late Mr. Claudet, who then gave an account of the progress which had been made up to that time in an art and a science which is now pefectly familiar to all of you; I refer to photography. It is exceedingly curious that his lecture on the origin of this science, and my present lecture on the application of photography to spectrum analysis are complementary to each other, so much so that one may almost say that Mr. Claudet's lecture, admirable though it was, was incomplete, because he did not show in it, as of course he could not, how certain matters which he referred to in that lecture have been dealt with in the light of modern science.
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LOCKYER, J. On Spectrum Photography * . Nature 10, 109–112 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/010109a0
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