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RefNoPC/2/3/3
LevelItem
TitleDisplay label, photographs of spectra, exhibited by Joseph Norman Lockyer
Date1887
DescriptionExplanatory text used for an exhibit at Burlington House, during the Royal Society's conversaziones of 11 May and 8 June 1887.

Text reads: 'The Royal Society 1887. Exhibited by Prof. J. N. Lockyer. Photographs showing line & fluted spectra. Taken at Kensington.'

The label has a red ink border and highlighting to the 'T', 'R' and 'S' of The Royal Society. Text struck through in pencil. The label was re-purposed: the reverse has a table of attendees at the Royal Society's Committee of Papers, 1889-1890, with dates of attendances.
Extent1p.
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionOn paper, mounted on card.
AccessStatusOpen
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