C. A. Young—The Solar Eclipse. 285 
During the progress of the eclipse, before totality, Professor 
Rockwood looked carefully for any such phenomena as brushes 
of light at the cusps, and after totality both Professor Brackett 
and myself joined him in the examination with our instru- 
ments, but nothing abnormal was seen by either of us. ith 
the large equatorial the definition was most of the time very 
deed. 
fine indee 
appeared to be straight, but not even, looking as if made up 
of crescents having their points overlapping. I did not look 
seconds 
me verbally that the velocity of movement rather exceeded a 
very fast walk—say from five to six miles per hour—also that 
e estimated the dimensions by measuring, the next morning, 
upon the ground, the distance between objects over which the 
fringes passed simultaneously. The fact that the movement 
as he saw it was just opposite to Mr. McNeill’s impression, is of 
course noticeable. Perhaps the explanation may be connected 
with the fact that one observed at the beginning, and the other 
at the end of totality. Mr. Pickering, however, who though 
not of our party observed in our enclosure, described the 
movement as vibratory rather than progressive. 
Spectroscopic Observations. 
