136 Scientific Intelligence. 
rays as subjective pheno mo of end of totality 
was with the naked eye, and the last contact with t 
comet-seeker, as before. Comparing his rvations with the 
obse h 
computed times, he finds the contacts to have occurred later than 
predicted by 12**5 for the first, 10°-4 for the third, and 7*8 for the 
ast ; whence he infers 
’s )— Hansen’s oO is Som _ by 513 
whereas, Hansen’s }— LeVerrier’s © i o great by 2 2-7, 
rof. Harkness constructed a building for himself Prof. Eastman 
and Dr. Curtis at another point in the city of Des Moines, and 
determined his position as latitude 41° 35’ 35”-9, long. 1" 6m 168 05 
|W. from Washington, by means of observations which are repro- 
duced with great fullness of detail. At the beginning and end 
of the eclipse he was engaged with Dr. Curtis in taking photo- 
to K. 1497. It must we thin een , which was 
rec so many other observers and which Lockyer and 
Young have always found in the chromosphere. The moderate 
rsive a oa of Prof. hyn spectroscope would, as he 
c 
near lines. 
Prof. Eastman’s report contains the results of meteorological 
and photometric ai eee (which during the two days preced- 
ing the eclipse must have been far from encouraging), of observa- 
tions of the a and of the corona. Of this and the appeat- 
a Reese 9 to him, he has given two colo 
° ide thea the ee Amid’s any avoca ~~ a is sur- 
prising that Prof. Eastman could have astennpls ished so much, 
that so well. We cannot avoid the conviction that ais he been 
master of his own time during the total open! he would not have 
failed to detect the decided fluctuations of which the corona 
b “iin ) Like 
the protuberances strongly red. 
