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(2) PHOTOGRAPHIC 



Equal exposures of 70 seconds for each camera were made during 

 totality by Father Woodman. The negatives were kindly developed, 

 with Director Pickering's permission, by Mr. King at Harvard Col- 

 lege Observatory. They show evidences of motion caused by the 

 lack of opportunity to rate the driving clock accurately, but exhibit 

 coronal streamers extending at least 2\ solar diameters. These are 

 much shortened in the accompanying reproductions. 



(3) TIMES OF CONTACT 



Rev. Woodman obtained an accurate rating of his watch from 

 Western Union noon signals during the week preceding the eclipse 

 and each day comparisons were made with an excellent Hamilton 

 watch of the Smithsonian Institution. The times of contact deter- 

 mined bv Rev. Woodman follow : 



1st contact 



2d contact 



3d contact 



4th contact 



io h i9 ra 48. s 5 

 11 27 15. 1 



n 28 37- 3 ( 



12 29 45. 4J 



^G. M. T. 



(4) GENERAL OBSERVATIONS 



The writer obtained only one short look at the total eclipse through 

 a small window in the barn. He was profoundly astonished at the 

 weird grandeur of the sight. Rev. Woodman and Mr. Kramer, both 

 stationed out of doors, were impressed with the unusual darkness 

 which prevailed, it being markedly greater than that which they 

 experienced at Wadesboro, N. C, in 1900. Miss A. L. Loving, 

 of St. Joseph, Mo., a spectator, reported seeing shadow bands dis- 

 tinctly in the direction northeast to southwest. 



