SHORT PAPERS 



PROFESSOR A. Ricco, Director of the Royal Observatory, Catania, Sicily, pre- 

 sented a paper " On the Distribution of the Solar Phenomena." 



PROFESSOR I. HARTMANN, of the Astrophysical Observatory at Potsdam, 

 Germany, read a paper before the Section on " A new Method of measuring the 

 Stellar Spectra." 



PROFESSOR E. B. FROST, of Yerkes Observatory, presented a paper giving a 

 comparative study of stellar spectra. 



PROFESSOR CHARLES D. PERRINE, of Lick Observatory, read a paper on 

 "Some Total Solar Eclipse Problems." 



