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I MUST thank Mr. Benham for directing attention (April 8) to the early observations of Boyle quoted by Faraday. I have erred in good company; Stokes himself was apparently unaware of Boyle's experiment, and the “Optics” of Basset, Glazebrook, Preston, Tait, and Winkelmann all seem to regard Brewster and Herschel as the first discoverers of fluorescence.
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SHAXBY, J. Lignum Nephriticum. Nature 80, 248 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/080248c0
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