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NA TURE 



[February 13, 1896 



Brazilian station, and it aftbrds me very great pleasure to 

 bring this before you, because it enables me in this 

 pubUc way, as President of the Vesey Club, to tender 

 thanks to Sir Benjamin Stone for the help he gave the 

 Brazilian party. 



We next pass to the results which were obtained by 

 Messrs. Fowler and Shackleton, who were in charge of 

 the instruments at the two stations. The diagrams will 

 indicate the kind of celestial hieroglyph — to come back 



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to the old image— we have to deal with when this method 

 is employed. 



We get more or less complete rings when we are deal- 

 ing with an extended arc of the chromosphere, or lines of 

 dots when any small part of it is being subjected to a dis- 

 turbance which increases the temperature and, possibly, 

 the numbers of the different vapours present. 



The efficiency of this method of work with the dispersion 



employed, turns out to be very marvellous, and in 

 securing such valuable and permanent records as these, 

 you will acknowledge that we have done very much better 

 than if we had contented ourselves with the style of 

 observations that I have referred to as having been made 

 in 1871. 



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And now the plot of my story begins to thicken. On 

 examining these eclipse records, we find that we have to 

 do exactly with those unknown lines which had already 

 been photographed in the stars and in the nebulas. 



As was to be expected we, of course, deal with the 

 lines recorded in the first observations of the solar dis- 



