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IT will be within the recollection of many of your readers that, in the year 1879, a committee was appointed by the British Association to report on the state of our knowledge of spectrum analysis, and I was asked to undertake the preparation of a bibliography of spectroscopy from the year 1870. It was not thought necessary to begin at an earlier date, for a bibliography of the subject is to be found in Roscoe's “Spectrum Analysis.” With the help of several members of the committee, lists of spectroscopic papers were prepared, and appeared in the British Association Reports for 1881, 1884, and 1889. In that year Mr. H. J. Madan kindly consented to join the committee, and as he was then resident in Oxford he was able to afford valuable assistance in checking the references, and the section of the list that was published last year is almost entirely his work, as I had found it impossible to spare the time to go to London to look up the references in the libraries. Mr. Madan is now living in Gloucester, and therefore out of reach of scientific libraries; he has, notwithstanding, shown his interest in the subject by making frequent visits to Oxford and London to continue the work. He finds, however, that the work is hardly practicable for one so far removed from the great centres; and my object in writing this letter is to ask if any one will volunteer to relieve him from this duty—that is, on the supposition that the list is of real use to workers on spectroscopic subjects. Many of the readers of NATURE will be able to give valuable opinions on this matter, and probably to suggest improvements in the manner in which the list is drawn up.
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MCLEOD, H. The Bibliography of Spectroscopy. Nature 52, 105 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/052105b0
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