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probably extravagant in giving the clouds all the colours of the 
rainbow (though he considers this allowable in country journalism) 
and he proceeds to name ‘pink, purple, yellow orange, and 
fiery red,” and ‘‘a band of lilac,” though not green or blue, as being 
eolours he had seen. It is quite impossible notwithstanding exag- 
geration to compare this, which I take from Mr. Proctor’s late work 
on the Sun; with the descriptions I have quoted from Professor 
Grant, without seeing that the phenomenon was the same that M. 
Savournin saw at Seyne. It is eminently fitted for examination by 
those unaccustomed to use instruments, and, while I believe worth 
investigation, will not deprive them of the great spectacle. The 
occasion will, I think, be very favourable. 
To those one degree more professional who may possess tele- 
scopes on mountings and seek to do some further service, without 
too great a sacrifice of personal feelings, I would suggest the 
selection of certain parts of the Corona and their careful scrutiny, 
so as to enable drawings to be made and descriptions to be written 
immediately afterwards. The parts I would refer to are those which 
I have in my Report of 1868 called flare. I did not of course see 
them then, but it was quite impossible to examine carefully my 
original negatives without a strong conviction, that in those places at 
all events gas, luminous though much less so than the body of the 
protuberances, was streaming from them into the general light 
of the Corona. As photography will probably be entirely directed 
to the general Corona, these brighter parts will be to a great extent 
lost in detail. Indeed if they are to be done justice to by Photo- 
graphy, it must be by special arrangements allowing large pictures 
to be rapidly taken in some Eclipse of the future. At present 
I would call the attention of draughtsmen to these spots, from 
which, when found, they should not allow their attention to go. 
Moderate power would alone be necessary, though if the air be 
steady enough high power would concentrate the attention by 
limiting the space. Itis alleged too that there are nodes and 
bands of light in the Corona of complicated structure and quite 
free of the Sun ; these too might be noticed, probably the best 
plan will be to attack the first such object seen and adhere to it. 
Lastly, I would urge on those who I trust may be induced to 
