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Excerpt from Light Science for Leisure Hours: A Series of Familiar Essays on Scientific Subjects, Natural Phenomena, Etc
This and the other Essays from the Daily News are selected from a large number of articles which I wrote in the years 1868 It was by my kind friend Mr. Walker, formerly editor of the Daily News, that I was first urged to collect my Essays into a volume. I have to thank the proprietors and the present editor of the Pauly News, and the proprietors and editors of the other journals from which the pres ent series has been selected, for freely according me permission to reprint these Essays.
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