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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XI. No. 286. 



Father Woodman's comparison of the ap- 

 pearance to a structure of mother of pearl 

 was generally recognized as good, but differ- 

 ent observers differed on the color estimate. 

 A yellowish green tinge was noticed by the 

 artist of the party, Mr. Child, while to others 

 the light was straw-colored or golden. 



The general coronal form, to the naked 

 •eye, was nearlj' that of the. small annexed 



in the direct coronal negatives taken with 

 the 135-ft. telescope. Mr. Smillie exposed 

 six 30x30 plates during totality, with times 

 ranging from i a second to 16 seconds, and 

 three others were exposed by him immedi- 

 ately after the third contact. 



At this writing, only a part of the nega- 

 tives taken have been developed. Their 

 general quality may be inferred from the 



Fig. 2. 

 8 seconds. 



Prominences on southwest limb of sun. Taken with 12-inch lens of 135 feet focus. Exposure 



photograph, which, though taken by one of 

 the smaller objectives, gives a good view of 

 the relative intensities. The same exten- 

 sions of the equatorial corona could be fol- 

 lowed by the naked eye from 3 to 3^ solar 

 diameters. 



The visual telescopic observations of the 

 writer gave little indication of the finely 

 divided structure of the inner corona which 

 he had noticed at Pike's Peak. Structure, 

 to be sure, was evident, but not in such 

 minute subdivision as had then been seen, 

 and though one remarkable prominence as 

 well as several smaller ones was visible, the 

 coronal streamers did not give to the writer 

 the impression of being connected with these 

 prominences, though the relationship of 

 some of them to the solar poles was abun- 

 dantly manifest. 



AFTER TOTALITY. — RESULTS. 



Comparing notes after totality, all obser- 

 vers reported a successful carrying out of 

 the program. The greatest interest centers 



examples here given, after due allowance 

 for the great loss suffered by translation on 

 to paper even with the best care. 



Figure 1 is a view taken with one of the 

 smaller objectives (6 inches), given here to 

 afford the reader an idea of the general dis- 

 position of the coronal light. The upper 

 part is the vertexin the inverted field. 



Figure 2 is a portion of one of the great 

 15-inch circular images obtained with the 

 135-ft. focus telescope. It was obtained 

 in the great disk in the last exposure dur- 

 ing totality of 8 seconds, showing one of 

 the principal prominences then on the sun's 

 disk, with a disposition of the lower fila- 

 ments near it. 



Fig. 3 is a portion of the same set of 

 plates, but taken with a 16 second exposure. 

 The part near the sun has, of course, been 

 intentionally over-exposed, in order to bet- 

 ter exhibit the remarkable polar streamers, 

 extending here to a distance of about six 

 minutes from the sun, but still further in 

 Mr. Child's telescopic drawing (not given). 



