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1850. FRANCOIS JEAN DOMINIQUE ARAGO. Experimental Inves- 

 tigation on Polarized Light. 



1852. GEORGE GABRIEL STOKES. On the Change of Refrangibility 

 of Light. 



1854. NEIL ARNOTT. A new Smoke-Consuming and Fuel-Saving 

 Fireplace. 



1856. Louis PASTEUR. Discovery of the Nature of Racemic Acid, 

 arid its Relations to Polarized Light. 



1858. JULES CELESTIN JAMIN. Various Experimental Researches 

 on Light. 



1860. JAMES CLERK MAXWELL. Researches on the Composition 

 of Colors, and other Optical Papers. 



1862. GUSTAV ROBERT KIRCHHOFF. Researches on the Fixed Lines 

 of the Solar Spectrum, and on the Inversion of the 

 Bright Lines in the Spectra of Artificial Light. 



1864. JOHN TYNDALL. Researches on the Absorption and Radi- 

 ation of Heat by Gases and Vapors. 



1866. ARMAND HIPPOLYTE Louis FIZEAU. Optical Researches 

 and Investigations into the Effect of Heat on the Re- 

 fractive Power of Transparent Bodies. 



1868. BALFOUR STEWART. Researches on the Qualitative as well as 

 Quantitative Relations between the Powers of Emission 

 and Absorption of Bodies for Heat and Light. 



1870. ALFRED OLIVIER DES CLOIZEAUX. Researches in Minera- 

 logical Optics. 



1872. ANDERS JONAS ANGSTROM. Researches on Spectral Analysis. 



1874. JOSEPH NORMAN LOCKYER. Spectroscopic Researches on the 

 Sun and on the Chemical Elements. 



1876. PIERRE JULES CESAR JANSSEN. Researches on the Radia- 

 tion and Absorption of Light, carried on chiefly by means 

 of the Spectroscope. 



1878. ALFRED CORNU. Optical Researches, and especially his re- 

 cent rede termination of the Velocity of Propagation of 

 Light. 



1880. WILLIAM HUGGINS. Astronomical Researches. 



