32 ANNUAL RECOKD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



the corona to be higher than seen by the spectroscope. 15 

 A,Proc. Brit, Assoc, August 24, 1872, 237. 



ENGLISH ECLIPSE EXPEDITION. 



Comment is made by the English scientific journals upon 

 the omission of any official announcement on the part of the 

 English eclipse expedition of December last of the results of 

 the facts observed, and a comparison with the conduct of pri- 

 vate expeditions is made, quite unfavorable to the former. 

 A writer in the Popular Science JZevieiv, referring to this sub- 

 ject, applauds Col. Tennant for the promptness with which 

 he* communicated the results to the Royal Astronomical So- 

 ciety, and exhibited the photographs obtained at Dodabetta. 

 These, when compared with the photographs made by Lord 

 Lindsay's photographer, proved, in the opinion of the writer, 

 in the most conclusive manner the solar nature of the corona. 

 5 A, July 4, 1872,303. 



PROFESSOR YOUNG'S LECTUEE ON THE SUN. 



An excellent compendium of our present knowledge of the 

 sun and the phenomena of its atmosphere, from the pen of 

 Professor Young, has just been published by Chatfield & Co., 

 of New Haven. This author, it is well known, has himself 

 occupied a very prominent part in the history of more recent 

 discoveries in regard to the sun, and the article referred to is 

 the substance of a lecture delivered at New Haven during 

 the past winter. This has, however, been materially modi- 

 fied, so as to bring the subject up to the present state of our 

 knowledge, as rendered necessary by the rapid progress made 

 in the science of solar physics. 



"ANNALS OF THE DUDLEY OBSERVATORY." 



The second volume of the "Annals of the Dudley Observa- 

 tory," edited by its director, G. \V. Hough, has just made its 

 appearance, and consists of a report of the meteorological ob- 

 servations made at the observatory from 1862 to 1871. Its 

 value is enhanced by its embracing the hourly records of the 

 barometer (automatically printed) for a continuous period of 

 five years, made by means of a very efficient apparatus in- 

 vented by the director, and now used in numerous places, 

 among others, in the office of the Signal Service at Washing- 



