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to the difference between tlie a and tlie c stars. Yet all llic same this question 

 may be answered in the aftirnialive; on both spectrograms of tins star occur- 

 ring in her work, we see very distinctly the line 4053.8, which in Capella and 

 Sirius is absent and wliich is a typical line for the c stars. Hence follows that 

 « Carinae is indeed a c star. 



