’ LeVerrier’s Report on the Solar Eclipse of July 18, 1860, at Tura- 
zona in Spain, (L’ Institut, Nos. 1387-88-89. Aug. 1-16.)—[.At the 
g provided with micrometers of peculiar construction 
in. 
able. Early in J uly Mr. Yvon Villarceau joined the instruments at Tudela 
‘Inthe center of Spain, on the banks of the Ebro, and immediately pro- 
ns for time, dc., we note that at totality they found the general illu- 
‘Mination of the atmosphere much greater than the relation of former ob- 
Servers of total eclipses had led them to expect, so that they could read 
write easily without using their lamps. 
Says LeV. : “The first object which I saw in the field of the telescope 
after the commencement of totality was an isolated cloud separated 
ual to its own breadth, the whole 
that length. Its color was a 
beautiful rose mixéd with shades of violet, and eet,” seemed to 
F 
oe 
B 
=} 
= 
bs] 
o 
~ 
i) 
~ 
=, 
—— 
= 
TQ 
2 
Ge 
a2 
= 
=a 
& 
h 
Which was : brilliancy. But 30° below 
Was perfectly white and of the greatest bri y aan 
the horizontal duasinee on the east I discovered two lofty and adjoining 
=f 
