January, 1013. 



KNOWLEDGE. 



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uiany to see that totality in our latitudes can be as long as 

 5m 45s. There are several other totalities in Scteader's 

 table falling but little .short of this. Mr. Maguire gives 

 4m 55s for the duration of the eclipse of 885, June ISch, in 

 Scotland. The shadow covered almost the whole of Scotland 

 on that occasion. 



Two eclipses of the next decade deserve a note. That of 

 1921, April 8th, is annular in Lewis, North-west Scotland, 



and Shetlands (it is five hundred and twenty-one year.s 

 before the total eclipse of 2442). Our last annular ecUpses 

 were in 1836, 1847, 1858. 



The eclipse of 1925, January 24th, is total a few miles 

 west of St. Kilda, but the Sun will be very low. 



The year 1917 is interesting from having seven eclipses, 

 the maximum possible number. This has not happened 

 since 1805. It will happen again, after the Saros, in 1935. 



Table 5. 



