TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

Fractions are represented horizontally using the slash / symbol. The original separated the numerator and denominator horizontally, separated by a _ line.

Punctuation has been normalized. Except in the following cases, variations in hyphenation, spelling and spacing have been retained as they were in the original publication.

[Chapter 2]:

Lumer-Brodhum photometer —> Lummer-Brodhun photometer

[Chapter 4]:

What appear to be hand-drawn primes in the text have been confirmed as: The arc ha´ce —> The arc ha´c´e´.

e c a a´ c e´ —> e c a a´ c´ e´

[Figure IV]