246 Scientific Intelligence. 
as has been said, “ to a certain extent, the corona sympathizes 
with the sun-sp 
It certainly aw probable, also, that while the gaseous elements 
of the corona are strictly solar, the non-gaseous matter—the coro- 
be 
brightness. In fact, it has never been traced quite so far from the 
as this time by Langley and Newcomb, who followed 
it out for six degrees along the ecli tic, a success part Ys of course, 
due to the clearness of the air at their on bgeen sta 
heory that me 
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made by Langley, Abbe, Penrose, Boss and others, and 
photographs, which in excellence — number excel those obtained 
on any previous occasion. Among the best which we have seen 
raper at Rawlins, and those of the Princeton er we se 
yee snaps there are others of at least equal excellen 
To su 
it may be, which produces the periodical sun spots at intervals of 
about eleven years, also affects the coronal RT of the 
prov by results of ie ee Set still there can be no ques- 
tion that the subject deserves thorough study. 
The result of the late eclipse goes to show such a periodical 
change in the state of the solar atmosphere as might very possibly 
produce a sensible effect upon the earth; whether it does or not 
1s a question which can be — only by a careful and syste 
matic pia of the fact 
J., Thursday, Aug. < 1878, 
15. Tistinies of France.—Dr. Asa Gra ray has been elected Cor- 
responding Member of the Institute in place of Alexander Braun, 
of ies recently deceased. 
arwin hed also been mad o1 nding Member 
of the ‘Tndeitite: ptt tes ater J 
The Annual Meeting of German Naturalists and Physicists 
will be held during the week from September 11-18, instead of 
the following wee 
ae ee Ne eo Ee eee ere Ce ied 
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