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THE subject of the preparation and optical properties of glasses of a great variety of chemical positions, formed, for nearly forty years, a favourite study with the late Mr. Harcourt. As stated in a report published in the British Association Reports for 1844, some experiments on the subject were commenced in 1834, which he was encouraged to pursue further by a request published in the fourth volume of the Transactions of the Association. A report on a gas furnace, the construction of which formed a preliminary inquiry, was published in the reports, but the results of the actual experiments on glass have never yet been published.
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The Late Rev. W. V. Harcourt's Researches on Glass * . Nature 4, 351–352 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/004351a0
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