Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
The congruences of a finite sectionally complemented lattice  
 $L$  are not necessarily uniform (any two congruence classes of a congruence are of the same size). To measure how far a congruence  
 $\Theta $  of  
 $L$  is from being uniform, we introduce Spec  
 $\Theta $ , the spectrum of  
 $\Theta $ , the family of cardinalities of the congruence classes of  
 $\Theta $ . A typical result of this paper characterizes the spectrum  
 $S=({{m}_{j}}|j<n)$  of a nontrivial congruence  
 $\Theta $  with the following two properties:
 
 $$({{S}_{1}})\,\,\,\,2\le n\,\,\text{and }n\ne 3.\,\,\,\,$$
 $$({{S}_{2}})\,\,\,2\le {{m}_{j}}\,\,\text{and}\,\,{{m}_{j}}\ne 3,\,\,\,\text{for}\,\text{all}\,j<n.$$