Astronomy. val 
Ill. Astronomy. 
mm. 
1869, and originally consisted of Professors Santini, Cacciatore, 
A. de Gasparis, Donati and Schiaparelli. At their first meeting, 
eir numbers Father 
Blaserna, and at the same time elected the venerable Santini as 
their President, and Cacciatore as Vice-President. re 
The volume opens with a short letter addressed to the Minister 
which the minister entered into and seconded their plans 
and the results but partially satisfactory. We copy his summary 
in his own words : 
“As soon as nature resumed its course, I was able to satisfy 
myself that if the sky had not been largely propitious, it had yet 
conceded to us a certain interval, the fruits of which had been 
he present st 
“Father Secchi had undertaken the photography 
and the spectroscopic examination of the protuberances before the 
_ eclipse, with the view of comparing their appearance thus ob- 
ed with that presented during the eclipse. Their form and 
oe were obtained during the morning under a favorable sky. oe 
the be oe 
