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PROF. W. M. GREAVES, president of the Royal Astronomical Society, delivered his presidential address on February 14, 1948, to the Society at Burlington House, selecting as his topic "The Photometry, of the Continuous Spectrum". As Prof. Greaves pointed out at the beginning of his address, he was encouraged to make the attempt of presenting a survey of the subject by the consideration that it "can be used to illustrate the way in which Natural Knowledge is advanced by an interplay between observational and theoretical investigations". The address involves so many technical matters and is so comprehensive that no attempt can be made in this short notice to deal with it in detail ; and those who are specially interested in the subject should study the paper itself (Mon. Not. Boy. Astro. Soc, 108, No. 1; 1948).
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Photometry of the Continuous Spectrum. Nature 163, 338–339 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163338b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/163338b0