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corona fairly on to the glass. Mr. Brothers, of Manchester, however, 

 showed how this difficulty was to be surmounted. He discarded the 

 telescope and employed the ordinary photographic camera. The re- 

 sults were most satisfactory. The eclipsed sun was indeed partially 

 hidden by clouds during all but the last few seconds of totality ; but 

 for eight seconds the camera was fairly at work ; and the result was, 

 " the corona as it had never been seen on glass before." 



THE Btm's CORONA. 



E, the inner or ring-formed corona ; C, the outer radiated corona. 



During the late eclipse, Mr. Brothers's plan was adopted at several 

 stations, and most successfully, by all the photographing parties 

 whose accounts have yet reached Europe. For many weeks, however, 

 these photographs will not be available for examination. The great 

 point which we know already respecting them is this : that they show 

 an extensive corona, with persistent rifts those taken at the beginning 

 of totality differing from those taken at the end only as respects parts 

 of the corona very far from the sun. All those doubts, which had been 

 based on the circumstance that Mr. Brothers's best photograph was 

 taken nearly at the close of totality, are therefore removed by the 

 photographs taken on the present occasion. 



But, the corona was so favorably seen even with the naked eye, 

 during the recent eclipse, as to dispose of all the doubts formerly en- 

 tertained. In an interesting letter in the Daily News, an eye-witness 

 at Bekul, describing Mr. Lockyer's observations, says that so soon as 

 the totality began the corona appeared, rigid in the heavens, like a 

 magnificent decoration, suggesting by its fixity the idea of perfect rest 



