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presented none of the coppery color usual on these occasions. It was 



bluish at the lower edge No markings were plain enough to be 



recognized. 



Beechey, Downham, Engl., (54) ; sky and means not stated. 



c= 1.7 During totality it presented one equal flat tint of cold grey, through 

 which every feature of the lunar surface was distinctly visible. 

 Denning, Bristol, Engl., (57) ; perfectly cloudless sky. 



c = i.7 10 inch reflector; .... her sharply circular contour, however, still 

 admitted of satisfactory observation, and many leading features of the 

 surface were recognized amid the prevailing gloom ; . . . . interior 

 region the coloring .... dark reddish brown. 

 Guillaume, Perronas, France, (59) ; nothing about means or sky; the 



b 1.7 c seas were all visible. 



Lowe, Chepstowe, Engl., (61) ; sky cloudless, stars very brilliant. 



c^i.7 Telescope, aperture not stated. Having previously observed a number 

 of lunar eclipses, .... the density and blackness of the shadow was 

 far greater than any previous one that I had seen. In all previous 

 eclipses I have been able to trace the outline ; in the present case this 

 was quite impossible. The moon had more the appearance of a large 

 star whose light was just able. to pierce through a dense haze. [He 

 nowhere in his long account says anything of surface details.] 

 Muller, Copenhagen, (62), and wife. Nothing about sky or means. 



b = i.8 Immediately after the beginning of totality, saw a bright red copper 

 disk, which lasted perhaps 2 m. Others in Copenhagen agreed as to 

 the color, but not as to intensity; outside of Copenhagen Danish 

 observers noted fainter reds. 

 Erck, Shankill, Ireland, (58) ; most favorable circumstances. 



c^ 1.8 Means not stated. Obscuration so great that the disk could hardly be 

 discerned with the n. e. There were changes in the brightness of the 

 surface, described with sketches. 



In his summary, Flammarion says that there are brought out curious 

 and striking discrepancies among the accounts received. This is clear 

 in the above. Such discrepancies seem frequent in descriptions of dim 

 eclipses, of which this was surely one. 



1885 III 30; 0.886 ; Grade I 



c N. Pacific, Bering's Sea, Finland. 



Buisson, St. Denis, Reunion, (69) ; temps splendide; astronomical twi- 

 light at beginning. 



a 4.3 c 10.8 cm.; the eclipsed limb became invisible at 6 h. 57 m., 1. m. t., and 



c 1.4 e remained so till near last contact ; about 9 h. 15 m., 1. m. t., Aristarchus 

 and Mare Crisium were sometimes visible; during a great part of the 

 eclipse the shadowed part was entirely or nearly invisible. Colors not 

 mentioned. 



Biggs, Launceston, Tasmania, {6y) ; quotation from Launceston " Ex- 

 aminer " ; sky and size of telescope not stated, but he observed con- 

 stantly for three hours. 



c= 1.5 [At most (mid-eclipse) 25° of the eclipsed limb was visible, from the 

 shadow-border inward; with this exception] all within the shadow 



