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AT a former anniversary I brought before the members of the Institute the subject of the luminiferous ether. It is one of great and growing interest. I mentioned on that occasion how discoveries of very recent date have led us to attribute continually increasing importance, and a widening range of function, to that medium—substance can I call it?—the existence of which was originally assumed as a hypothesis in order to account for the phenomena of light. It is in connection with this last aspect that it relates to what I propose to bring before you to-day.
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The Perception of Light.1. Nature 53, 66–68 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/053066a0
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