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As the subject of dust-images was recently considered in some interesting letters in NATURE, I wish to record an example of a soot-image which was far more detailed and remarkable than any I have yet seen. The example is to be found on the ceiling of the billiard-room in the Golf Club House at Felixstowe. Abundant soot has been deposited above the lamps by which the table is lighted, and this is distributed so as to map out on the ceiling not only the outline of the joists, but that of the laths and even of the nails by which the ends of the latter are secured. The mark corresponding to the nail-head is certainly much larger than the latter. I made rom memory a rough sketch of the appearance, which is reproduced in the accompanying woodcut. I may be mistaken in the position of some of the light and dark shades. If the example is as new to others as it was to me it would be interesting to have a photograph of the ceiling before it is again whitewashed.
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POULTON, E. Soot-figures on Ceilings. Nature 47, 608 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/047608a0
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