S. Newcomb on observing the Corona. 413 
Minor, leaving a bright trail, For two full minutes it re- 
mained unchanged. He then drove a stake in a direct line from 
Guards, pointed directly toward it in a 8. E. direction, about 
8° distant. In the morning he took the altitude and azimuth 
of the line from the stake to the tree, and found the direction 
of the meteor to be N. 38° 30’ E., alt. 32° 40’ 51’. The lati- 
tude and longitude of the place is 41° 38’ 6’’ N. lat., and 70° 
53’ 51’ W. long. 
One of the young ladies in Miss Mitchell’s class at Vassar 
College gives a diagram of the path of a meteor at 5" 21™ 15». 
miles for the lower part of the cloud. The northward motion 
of the cloud showed that it did not penetrate through the 
Art. XLIII.—<A Proposed Arrangement for Observing the 
Corona, and Searching for intra-~Mercurial Planets during 
a Total Eclipse of the Sun; by Suton NEwcoms. 
a brilliant crown of light, commonly likened to the “glory” 
: ing the heads of saints. 
represented by painte t : in! 
But, of the form and extent of this “corona,” nothing definite 
seems to be certainly known. It is verwagiore represented as 
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