288 C. A. Young—The Solar Eclipse. 
wide, showing, as it seemed to me, the full solar spectrum with 
all its dark lines as when a slit is used. These lines were so 
sharp and distinct that I counted and noted five distinct dark 
lines between the two H’s. t this time, and before, I noted 
also a bright band in the neighborhood of hf, which may have 
been due to Hé or may have been owing to the absorption of 
the dark glass I was using, a London smoke. When the light 
_ “The spectrum of the corona during all of totality was con 
tinuous and tolerably bright. I saw no dark lines crossing 1% 
but did not look particularly for them and should not expect 
to see them with my instrument. It did not show any bright 
