Seis eee eee [ARES i Ai rs a EN pn SY ae ae es ere ee Dost Me SRR ele ae = ke comes re a MRL BS) ON an 
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we are dealing with the exterior portion of the solar atmosphere, 
and a large knowledge of solar meteorology is already acquire zoe 
e also know that of the corona is not at the sun at all 
oa the terms Ava iS and halo have been suggested to 
designate in the one case the regions where the general 1 nessa a. 
owing to a reduced pressure and temperature, is no longer subor- 
dinate to the selective rometiee and in the other, that pert of the 
corona which is non-solar. N either of these terms Js apt, nor 
ed tha 
doubted solar portion the term Chromosphere—the bright-line re- 
gion—as it was defined in this theatre now two years ago, Rago 
expresses its characteristic features, and hepencates it from 
Peeper and the associated portion of the solar neephits 
ourse would end, if it were not incumbent on me to 
friends whom we found wherever we went, and who welcomed 
us as if they had know us from gs childhoo 
3. Sasrad Stars of August 10th-11th. sare Sherburne, N. Y., 
six persons watched for the August meteors on the night 
' of the the oats of the month. Between 11" 40™ and 12", forty- 
eight were seen, In the next hour one hundred and forty-three 
were counted, and ty the first eighteen minutes of | the nex t hour, 
wo. 
ok ; 
The latitude of the radiant was one and one-half ir less 
than that of the nebula in Perseus. Its length was at least two 
degrees, extending gues a point 2° or 3° to the left of that star 
to one 8° or 1 
to the left of Zia. Ne or quite bite 0 of the meteors 
Were judged to be sondarinn Bis to the above line as a sem $6 ee 
On a Meteor seen at haa ce N. C., July 19; ‘by C + 
Es S. Martin.—On Wednesday night, July 19th, between 8 and 9 
o'clock, we were very ee startled by a blaze of light, followed 
