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NEW S LETTER No. 10 9 NOVEMBER , 1953

News Letter Committee:

I. H. Godlove, Editor 127 Spring Gardon Street

Faber Birren I. H. Godlove Deane B. Judd Dorothy Nickerson

Easton, Penn&ylvania Dorothy Nickerson, Circulation Manager Cotton Branch, FMA, USDA Washington 25, D. c.

For matters of business Address tha Circulation Manager

Subscription price to non-members $4.,00 annually

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Secretary Evans reports to us that the Inter-Society was incorporated on October 14, 1953. The details of this action will be discussed at the next annual meetinge

ANNUAL MEETING

At a recent Executive Committee meeting, plans were made for the one-day Annual meeting which will be held at the Statler Hotel, New York Ci~y , .on March 24, 1954, and will include a banquet and evening program.

NEW INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS

At an Executive Committee meeting held on October 14, 1953, the following applications "for individual me~be~ship were approved: r

J. Beresford-Horn:ih1ow, 46 Sherwood Roe.d, Hall Green, Birmingham 28, England. Particular interest~ Resultant colours of light sources; illUillination of aquaria and underwater plants; study of defective colour viDion.

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Dr. I e GB H~~a Ishak, Ibrahim University, Cairo, Egypt. Color vision characteristics of the hUI:lan eye.

Particular interest:

Dr. Allan Eo Parker, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester 2, Massachusetts. _,. I

Mr. John Se Walsh, Pacific Gas and Electric Co., 245 Market Street, San Francisco 6, California.. Particular inte!'est: Color specification of l:i.ght sources. CALIFORNIA COLOR SOCIETY

This affiliate of the !SCC opened its 1953 Fall Season with a 11Water Re8ources Exhibit" which employed col or, sound and motion perception for its effects. It was presented by Norman Bilderback at the Museum of Science and Industry of California in Exposition Park. The e>~ibit was designed by the Barondon Corporation under the direction of Sterling Leach. The date of the meeting was Armistice Day, November 11.

I-S.C.C. NEWS LETTER NO. 109

November 195.3

OPTICAL SOCIETY MEETING

Although your Editor \f fluoreacent lamps J~

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Jones; U.

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Patent 2,653,994 (1953) ; Color wheel for television

L. R. Koller; J. Opt . Soc ~ Amer. ~' 620 (July, 1953); Monolayer fluorescent screens L. R. Koller & F a E. Williams (to Generai Electric Co.); u.s. Patent 2,590{018 (1952); Production of colored images (by means of a cathode ray tube screen) E. H. Land (to Polaroid Corp.); u.s . Patent 2,647,049 (1953); Photographic element for color photography and a process of producing multicolor pictures · V. D. Landon (to Radio Corp. of America); television

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Patent 2,594,567 (1952); Color

M. Lapidu3; Progressive Architecture~' 117 (June, 1953) Architect and color photography· D. L. MacAdam; J. Opt. Soc. Amer. 43, 622-3 (July, 19.53) Truncated weighted ordinate integrations in colorimet~ H. G. McAdie & R. v. V. Nicholls ; J. Opt. Soc. Amer. ~' 767-8 (Sept., 1953); Attachment to permit the exami nation of liquid films by a Beckman model DU spectrophotometer

R. ,c. Mathes (to Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc.); Color television with reduced band widt h

U.s.

Patent 2,580,685 (1952);

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LETTER NO. 109

November 1953

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G. Mattucci; u. S. Patent 2, 597,658 (1952); Color correction guage (This device is for color press printing)

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R~ MLles; J, Opt. So~. Arne~. 43, 560-6 (July, 1953); Light. sensitivity &id form perception in dark adaptation

Sir Isaac Newton; Opticks, student. 's edition, ba.c:ed on 4th ed:;_t:i,on, .. London 1730, reviewed by He E. Ives, J. Opt~ Soc. Amer. ~' 712 (Aug~, 1953).· Dover Publication3, Inc., New Yurk, 1952 .,..,..

S. F. · Orr; J e Optc Soc. P..ruer. l.J., 709-10 (Aug. , 1953); Des5.gn of a spectrophotumeter '.rith double-pass monochromator M. Ras; Uo s. Patent 2,649,734 (1953); Rotary multicolor

tra~sfer

ratio-~ecording

printing machine

s. Rosch (to Ernst Leitz); U.s. Patent 2,651,971 (1953); Instrument for producing color by means of polarization

A. Rose; J. Opt. Soc. Amer.

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715-6

(Sept~,

1953); Quantum and noise limitations

of the visual process

c. Schroeder & G. c. Sziklai (to Radio Corp. of America); U.S. Patent 2,653,993 (1953); Simultaneous color television optical system

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G. E. Sleeper, Jr. (to Co) or Television, Ince) U. S. Patent 2,653,182 (1953); Multicolor t~levision A. G. Smith; J. Opt. Soc. Amer. daylight visibility of stars

b2, 806

(Sept., 1953); Effect of spectral class on

A. L. Sciren & C. No Nelson; J. Opt. Soc. Amer. 43 _ , 689-97 (Aug. , 1953) Spectral and luminance requirements for color-trru1sparency illuminators R. E. Stephens; J. Opt. Soc. Amer. ~' 704 (Aug., 1953 ) Effect on illuminance of a lens interposed bet,~een the source and the illuminated surface

H. von Schelling; J. Opt. Soc. Amer.

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706-7

(Aug~,

1953) Simple graphic method

for the additive mixture of two colors on the CIE chromaticity diagram A. Walsh (to Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization); U. s. Patent 2,652,742 (1953); Monochromator P. K. Weimer (to Radio Corp. of America) ; U.s . Patent 2,650,264 (1953) ; Color television r eproducing system R.N. Wolfe & F~ H~ Milligan; Jo Opt. Soc. P~er. 43, 791-7 (Sept ., 1953 ) Relative photographic efficiency of certain light sources

I. Adler & J. M. Axelrod; J. Opt. Soc . Amer. 43, 769-72 (Sept. , 1953) Multiwavelength fluorescence-s pectrophotometer M. Alpern; J. Opt . Soc. Amere 43, 643-57 (Aug., 1953); Metacontrast

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No_ 1953 .vember .

Anon.; New Yorker ~2, 16-18 (July 4, 1953) From the soul; first lady pirJc Anono; J. Opt , Soco Amero ~2 , 809 (Sept o, 1953) Ameri0an Standards Association nomenclature for radiometry and photometry Z58c l ~ l-1953 Anon.; J. Opt o Soce .Amer., .4,2, 810 (Sept.,l953) Flag colors E, v-. Ashburn·; Jo Opt. the twilight sky

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Amera 43, 805-6 (Sept., 1953) B:r-ightness and color of

H.· D. ·Baker; J " Opt. Soc ~ · Amer • .4,2, 798-803 (Sept., 195J) Illstantaneous threshold and early dark adaptation R. C~ Beitz; J" Opt, Soc . Amer. 43, 773-6 (Sept·. , 1953) High speed cathode-ray indicating spectrophotometer A. A. ·Blank; J " Opt~ Soc. Amer • .4,2, 717-27 · {Sept., 1953 ) Luneburg theory of binocul·a r ·visual space C. S. Bridgman; J., Opto Soc. Amer. 43, 723-32 (Sept., 1953) Luminosity curve as affected by the relation between rod and cone adaptation E. c. Daigle (to Socony-Vacuum Oil Co.); stabilization of fuel oil s·

U.s.

A. N. Goldsmith (to Radio Corp. of ·America); Additive color television

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Patent 2,650,187 (1953); Color S. Patent 2,653,183 (1953);

L. J. · Heidt & D. E. Bosley; J~ Opt. Soc. Amer. 43, ?60-6 (Sept., 1953); Evaluation of two simple methods for calibrating wavelength and absorbance scales of scales of modern spectrophotometers