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THE scientific event of last week was the description and demonstration of colour photography given by Prof. Lippmann before the Royal Society. On the occasion of the centenary celebrations of the Institute of France last year, Lord Kelvin invited Prof. Lippmann to give the Royal Society an account of his researches on photography in colours, and last Thursday's meeting was the result. The methods employed by Prof. Lippmann are well known among men of science, but few of the Royal Society were prepared to see such remarkable results as those obtained and exhibited by the distinguished French physicist. The honour and fine feeling which such visits bring to the Society, and the extreme interest aroused, should help to make similar occasions of more frequent occurrence. We print Prof. Lippmann's lecture below, and our only regret is that it cannot give an at all adequate conception of the striking achievement with which it deals.
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Colour Photography. Nature 53, 617–618 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/053617a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/053617a0