only, a minute inspection of each of the phenomena being out of the 

 question. Very shortly after the termination of the totality, the clouds 

 again collected, and the last contact was completely hidden from view. 

 We had however witnessed all the principal phenomena much more 

 favourably than might have been expected from the previous and sub- 

 sequent state of the weather, and I felt grateful at having been thus 

 permitted to witness a spectacle so striking, and one so calculated to 

 impress the mind with wonder and admiration of the All-wise Creator 

 of the universe and His marvellous works. 



The day after, I obtained a view of the sun for a short time, and 

 observed a second spot had made its appearance on the following limb, 

 not fai' distant from the one seen on the 28th ; the position of these 

 two maculae are shewn for this date by the dotted circles marked c. and 

 d.. Fig. 1. 



The coincidence of these two spots with the two red prominences 

 seen on the same side during the total obscuration deserves attention. 

 A slight discrepancy in the figures Is probably owing to the errors of 

 sketching. 



It appears to me very probable that a connection exists between the 

 maculae on the sun's disc and the red prominences seen during the 

 totality ; the appearance of the second one on the following limb on the 

 day after the eclipse, and agreeing with the position of the second 

 prominence, favours this supposition. The large spot on the preceding 

 side. Fig. 1, corresponds also very nearly with the position of the 

 largest of the prominences. 



The effect produced on individuals by the eclipse differed much. I 

 have heard that in many parts of Sweden it occasioned much terror 

 amongst the inhabitants, and that in one place the clergyman of the 

 district participated in no small degree in the alarm. At TroUhatten it 

 was treated with levity, and the disappearance of daylight was hailed 

 with a loud laugh by those seated under our windows. 



GEORGE WILLIAMS. 



Prince a Park, Liverpool. 



Mr. Hartnup communicated his observations upon Bond s Ring of 

 Saturn. He stated that, previous to the 15th of September, all that he 

 had been able to see confirmatory of the discovery, was a dark band 

 crossing the ball of the planet, just above the bright ring, and an 

 apparent want of sharpness in the definition of the inner sides of the 

 inner bright ring ; the same appearance that puzzled Professor Bond, 

 till he was favoured with a night of unusually good definition. The 

 evening of the 15th September last was a superb night for astronomical 



