Handbuch der Spectroscopie

Abstract

WHEN Prof. Kayser published the first volume of his “Handbuch der Spectroscopie,” he said that the third volume would be devoted to absorption spectra and cognate phenomena. He has, however, found it necessary to treat the subject in two volumes, the first of which contains the methods of investigation of absorption spectra, the variability of absorption, the connection between absorption and chemical constitution, and, finally, a list of all the measurements of the absorption spectra of inorganic and artificial organic substances. In the next volume the absorption of the natural colouring matters in the animal and vegetable kingdom will be described, together with the relation of dispersion and fluorescence to absorption and, lastly, phosphorescence. The present volume is peculiarly interesting, as it deals to a great extent with the application of spectroscopy to chemical and physicochemical problems.

Handbuch der Spectroscopie.

By Prof. H. Kayser. Vol. iii. Pp. viii + 604. (Leipzig: S. Hirzel, 1905.)