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Rev. A. L Cortie 



[Feb. 26, 



which the spot was the centre ? We have a single large spot on the 

 sun surrounded by a larger area of facul^, and doubtless a still larger 

 area of flocculi, and an incohative stage of the transition from a 

 " minimum " to the " intermediate " type. 



Fig. 1. — A, B, C, D, E, are five points on a bright ray at 

 position angle 356^. O is the centre of the spot. The 

 small circles which are collinear are the intersections of 

 the opposite sides of the hexagon. 



Mons. F. Henroteau, a Belgian astronomer from the Royal 

 Observatory at Uccle, Brussels, a refugee at Stonyhurst, suggested 

 the ai3plication of Pascal's theorem in pure geometry, to ascertain 



