THERE are few who possess Browning's “miniature,” or other small direct-vision spectroscopes, but must have felt the want of some means of measuring the positions of spectral lines; and, indeed, ...

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IN using small spectroscopes, such as miniature pocket instruments, to examine coloured flames, and to discover to what particular substances they owe the characters of their radiation, the power of ...