Paper, 'On the action of crystallised surfaces upon light' by David Brewster in a letter to the Rt Hon Sir Joseph Banks Subject: Physics Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the action of crystallized surfaces upon light. By David Brewster, LL. D. F. R. S. Lond, and Edin. In a letter addressed to the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. G. C. B. P. R. S. &c. &c. &c'. Written by Brewster in Edinburgh. Read 25 February 1819. Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 2, 1833. 12 November 1818