The Lightning Spectrum

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DURING the brilliant display of lightning on the evening of June 28, I took the opportunity of making some observations of the spectrum. The way in which the spectrum varied was very remarkable, some of the flashes giving apparently perfectly continuous spectra, while others gave a spectrum of bright lines, as already recorded by Kundt and others. The continuous spectrum appeared to be associated with the flashes of longest duration, which were accompanied by very little thunder, and the bright line spectrum with the more instantaneous flashes. Using a Liveing direct-vision spectroscope with a very accurate scale, I succeeded in measuring the positions of six lines in the green, all of which no doubt have been observed before, bat in two cases at least the positions have not been previously measured. The wave-lengths of the lines observed were as follows-those determined by Vogel, Schuster, and Colonel John Herschel, being added for comparison:-

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