I had hoped to be able to give you a lower figure. Prof. Langley has made splendid experiments on the top of Mount Whitney, at the height of 1,500 feet above the sea level, with his "bolometer," and has made actual measurements of the wave lengths of radiant heat down to exceedingly low figures. I will read you one of the figures; I have not got it by heart yet, because I am expecting more from him.[5] I learned a year and a half ago that the lowest radiant heat observed by the diffraction method of Prof. Langley corresponded to 28 one-hundred-thousandths of a centimeter for wave length, 28 as compared with red light, which is 7.3, or nearly fourfold. Thus wave lengths of four times the amplitude or one-fourth the frequency per second of red light have been experimented on by Prof. Langley, and recognized as radiant heat. [5] Since my lecture I have heard from Prof. Langley that he has measured the refrangibility by a rock salt prism, and inferred the wave length of heat rays from a "Leslie cube" (a metal vessel of hot water radiating from a blackened side). The greatest wave length he has thus found is one one-thousandth of a centimeter, which is seventeen times that of sodium light. The corresponding period is about thirty million million to the second.--W.T. Photographic or actinic light, as far as our knowledge extends at present, takes us to a little less than one-half the wave length of violet light. You will thus see that while our acquaintance with wave motion below the red extends down to one-quarter of the slowest rate which affects the eye, our knowledge of vibrations at the other end of the scale only comprehends those having twice the frequency of violet light. In round numbers, we have four octaves of light, corresponding to four octaves of sound in music. In music the octave has a range to a note of double frequency. In light we have one octave of visible light, one octave above the visible range, and two octaves below the visible range. We have one hundred per second, two hundred per second, four hundred per second (million million understood) for invisible radiant heat, eight hundred per second for visible light, and one thousand six hundred per second for invisible light. One thing in common to the whole is the heat effect. It is extremely small in moonlight, so small that nobody until recently knew there was any heat in the moon's rays. Herschel thought it was perceptible in our atmosphere by noticing that it dissolved away very light clouds, an effect which seemed to show in full moonlight more than when we have less than full moon. Herschel, however, pointed this out as doubtful, but now, instead of its being a doubtful question, we have Prof. Langley giving as a fact that the light from the moon drives the indicator of his sensitive instrument clear across the scale, and with a comparatively prodigious heating effect!