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Cat.No. Exhibition Exhibit Title Process
369 1858, London, Photographic Society A Frame containing Seven Specimens of Instantaneous Photography 'The Waves of the Sea.' The Time of the exposure varying from 1/80th to1/150th part of a second. Collodion
372 1858, London, Photographic Society A Frame containing Two Specimens of the application of Photography to Meteorology. No 1 is a Photometeorograph of the Atmospheric Wave which passed over Europe in November 1854. No 2 is a Photometeorograph of a STORM, showing its effect on the Barometer, Dry- and Wet-Bulb Thermometers, and Rain Gauge. No 2 was printed from the original daily curves, which were Photographed in the Self-registering Meteorological Instruments at the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford. No 1 was obtained by joining the original sheets from the Barograph and taking a reduced Photographic copy of them, from which the above was printed. Waxed-paper
540.02 1854, London, Photographic Society Fig. 2. Effect produced by throwing the spectrum on a sensitive surface of iodide of silver, and then developing. The action is due only to the indigo, violet, and invisible rays, no effect taking place where the red, orange, yellow, green, or blue rays. Collodion
541.02 1854, London, Photographic Society Fig. 2. The same figure as fig. 1. Copied on bromide if silver. - Abnormal Figure. Collodion
540.03 1854, London, Photographic Society Fig. 3. Effect produced on bromide of silver under the same circumstances. The action is here due to the rays above the fixed line b, forming the upper three fourths of the green, together with the blue, indigo, violet and invisible rays; no action being produced by the red, orange, yellow, or lower part of the green. Collodion
541.03 1854, London, Photographic Society Fig. 3. Phaenomena produced by a crystal of calcareous spar under the same circumstances. Copied on iodide of silver. - Normal figure. Collodion
541.04 1854, London, Photographic Society Fig. 4. The same, copied on bromide of silver. - Abnormal figure. Collodion
540.04 1854, London, Photographic Society Figs. 4 and 5. Photographs of the solar spectrum after having submitted it to the absorbing action of sulphate of quinine. The only rays which this substance allows to pass are those below the violet; limiting the photographic action in the case of iodide of silver (fig. 4) to a narrow band around G, about the centre of the indigo; and in the case of bromide of silver (fig. 5) to the upper portion of the green, the blue and indigo rays. Collodion
541.01 1854, London, Photographic Society Photographic Copies of the Phaenomena of Polarised Light in Crystals: Fig. 1. Appearance observed when a thin slice of a crystal of nitrate of potassa is placed in the polarscope. Copied on a sensitive surface of iodide of silver. - Normal figure. (Vide Phot. Journal, No. VI. Page 70.) Collodion
508 1854, Dundee, Royal Infirmary Fund Photographic Copies, Figs 1-4. (Vide, Photographic Journal No. VI., page 70.) Collodion
560 1857, London, Photographic Society The Moon Collodion
540.01 1854, London, Photographic Society The Solar Spectrum, Fig. 1. Drawing of the visible spectrum, showing the principal fixed lines, and the general position of the colours with respect to them. (Vide Phot. Journal, No. VIII. p.98.) Collodion
509 1854, Dundee, Royal Infirmary Fund The Solar Spectrum, Figs 1-5. (Vide, Photographic Journal, No VIII., page 98.) Collodion

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