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RefNoEC/1876/05
Previous numbersCert X, 277
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TitleAbney, Sir William de Wiveleslie: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CitationWilliam de Wiveleslie Abney.
Has been employed for the last nine months in training the photographic operators to be attached to the Expeditions for observing the Transit of Venus, and in elaborating the special photographic process to be employed in these observations. Is appointed Astronomer & Photographer to the Alexandria station of observations. - Has contributed importantly to the development of the processes for producing permanent photographs by his discovery that the action of light, when once established, upon mixtures of gelatine and potassium bichromate continues in the dark, and is promoted by non-actinic rays of the spectrum. Author of a Paper on "electrical pyrometry" in the Phil Mag May 1872; - of Papers in the Journals of the Astronomical and Photographic Societies, and of a mathematical theory of the "action of submarine Explosions", - published, in part, in "Handbook of submarine Mining" by Lt Colonel Stotherd, RE. Inventor of a very successful process for printing photographs, - adopted by the Rl Engineers for use in Field and Siege Service, & for which the Photographic Society's Medal has been awarded. Also of an improved "Level", adopted for Rl Engineer Service, & specially recommended to Travellers by the Rl Geographical Society.
Distinguished for his acquaintance with experimental Science & Mathematics.
ProposersFrom General Knowledge. J H Gladstone; Ar Strange; Peter W Barlow; W H Barlow; W Farr; R Strachey; James Alderson; Wm Lassell; Charles V Walker; Andrew Scott Waugh.
From Personal Knowledge. F A Abel; Warren De La Rue; Fredk Jno Evans; D Galton; J T Boileau; William Odling; Charles Darwin; Eras Ommanney; E J Lowe
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Abney, Sir William de Wiveleslie: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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NA6454Abney; Sir; William de Wiveleslie (1843 - 1920)1843 - 1920
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