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I WISH to raise a point in connection with the optics of photochromy, which was not touched upon at the recent discussion at the Royal Society. The photochromatic spectra produced by the earlier workers, and especially by E. Becquerel about 1850, have long been known and have always appeared to be very mysterious to those who have repeated the experiments. When Prof. Lippmann's success with the interferential method was made known some five or six years ago, and his first results exhibited in this country, many of those who were acquainted with the previous methods of producing coloured spectra by direct impression came to the conclusion that all the earlier workers had unconsciously been producing the Lippmann effect.
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MELDOLA, R. Becquerel and Lippmann's Colour Photographs. Nature 54, 28 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/054028a0
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