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  <dc:title>Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, Lensfield Cottage, Cambridge, to Charles Vernon Boys </dc:title>
  <dc:description>On travelling back to Cambridge by train, he thought about the spectra shown by Boys. He has little doubt that the transverse bands in the spectrum of a violently tapering quartz fibre are caused by intereference between diffracted and transmitted light. The other bands seen without a slit belong to the light source and Stokes suggests means of exploring this, notably by substituting the electric light with sunlight.    </dc:description>
  <dc:date>2 December 1890</dc:date>
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