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SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING, OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
AND
EXHIBIT OF OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS
AT
THE NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS
WASHINGTON, OCT. 26-28, 1922


Volume VI
Number 6

Journal

of the

Optical Society of America

and

Review of Scientific Instruments

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: PAUL D. FOOTE
Bureau or Standards, Washington, D.C.

Assistant Editor-in-Chief and Business Manager: F. K. Richtmyer
Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.
Consulting Business Manager, M. E. Leeds, Philadelphia, Pa.

Associate Editors:

Term Ending
Dec. 31, 1923
Term Ending
Dec. 31, 1925
Term Ending
Dec. 31, 1927
H. D. Curtis G. K. Burgess W. T. Bovie
E. P. Hyde K. T. Compton H. G. Gale
Paul E. Klopsteg L. R. Ingersoll Herbert E. Ives
L. Silberstein C. E. K. Mees W. B. Lancaster
L. T. Troland C. E. Mendenhall P. G. Nutting
F. E. Wright D. C. Miller J. P. C. Southall

AUGUST, 1922

Report of Committee on Colorimetry for 1920-21 527
L. T. Troland, Chairman
Heteromorphies Due to Variation of Effective Aperture and Visual Acuity 597
K. Horovitz
The Absorption of the Eye for Ultra-Violet Radiation 605
Winifred P. Graham
INSTRUMENT SECTION
A New Principle and Its Application to the Lummer-Brodhun Photometer 615
E. P. Hype and F. E. Cady
An Electromagnetic Method of Detecting Minute Irregularities in Curvature of Metallic Spheres and Cylinders and of Controlling the Oscillations of a Mass of Metal Suspended by Means of a Torsion Fibre 620
Alexander Marcus
An Improved Form of Nichols Radiometer 625
B. J. Spence
A Portable Seismometer 629
P. G. Nutting
An Instrument for the Gamma Ray Measurement of the Radium Content of Weakly Active Materials 633
N. Ernest Dorsey
The Effect of a Photo-electric Material on the Thermo-electric Current in High Vacuum Audion Bulbs 639
Theodore W. Case
Direct Capacity Measurement 641
George A. Campbell
Notices 659

Published Monthly by the
OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

OFFICE OF PUBLICATION:
GEORGE BANTA PUBLISHING COMPANY
MENASHA, WISCONSIN

Entered as second-class matter May 31, 1921 at the postoffice at Menasha, Wis., under the act of March 3, 1879.