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detach itself from the corona, the white light of which was 

 not seen through it ; it and the other smaller red promi- 

 nences were, I fancied, rather brighter about the time of the 

 middle of totality, at 4^ 3"^ 46% L. M. T. ; by having men- 

 tally noted the time of their duration, I should say they were 

 visible 25^ or 30% all vanished nearly at once, a little before 

 the beads and corona, at the re-appearance of white light. 



Moon during the Totality. — The moon was visible during 

 the totality, and her rim well defined, shining with an ashy 

 light, but I cannot say that any particular spot, either dark 

 or light, was perceivable. I looked for the dark part on the 

 upper half of the east semidiameter, but could not catch 

 sight of it ; the "lumiere cendree" was about as strong, not 

 stronger, than it is about the third or fourth day after new 

 moon when the sun is below the horizon ; a very light flimsy 

 cloud was however passing before the moon just before the 

 totality closed, and might perhaps prevent my getting a 

 sight of the lunar spots, though fortunately it was not opaque 

 enough to hinder my seeing clearly the corona, beads, and 

 prominences. 



Holes in the Moon. — Neither the hole seen by Ulloa during 

 the eclipse of 1778, nor those stated by Valz in Marseilles, 

 and Stubendorff, as visible in 1842, were observable. 



Moon during Partiality, — The phenomenon related by Arago 

 and Bourard as seen in 1842, namely, the moon's circum- 

 ference being visible outside the sun's disc during the partial 

 eclipse — I did not either see, either during the increase or 

 decrease. 



Stars. — No stars were observed by me, in fact I did not 

 look for them, as my attention was directed exclusively during 

 the totality to the corona and the attendant phenomena ; but 

 the sky being very cloudy, I doubt if many were visible from 

 the site of observation. 



Effects on Birds, — A stork returned to its nest near the 

 church, about ten minutes before the totality, and remained 

 there with its mate quite quiet until about five minutes after 

 the first ray reappeared, when it began to call out loudly, and 

 flew away again. The cocks began to crow at the same time ; 

 as the eclipse advanced the swallows flew very low, and no 

 bird of any kind was visible, or heard for about ten minutes* 



