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WITHIN the last few years a singular interest has arisen in the subject of dust, smoke, and fog, and several scientific researches into the nature and properties of these phenomena have been recently conducted. It so happened that at the time I received a request from the Secretary of this Society to lecture here this afternoon I was in the middle of a research connected with dust, which I had been carrying on for some months in conjunction with Mr. J. W. Clark, Demonstrator of Physics in University College, Liverpool, and which had led us to some interesting results. It struck me that possibly some sort oi account of this investigation might not be unacceptable to a learned body such as this, and accordingly I telegraphed off to Mr. Moss the title of this afternoon's lecture. But now that the time has come for me to approach the subject before you I find myself conscious of some misgivings, and the misgivings are founded upon this ground: that the subject is not one that lends itself easily to experimental demonstration before an audience. Many of the experiments can only be made on a small scale and require to be watched closely. However, by help of diagrams and by not confining myself too closely to our special investigation but dealing somewhat with the wider subject of dust in general, I may hope to render myself and my subject intelligible if not very entertaining.
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Dust-Free Spaces 1 . Nature 29, 610–613 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/029610a0
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