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the 6-inch Greenwich refractor. In this instrument, to which I 
rushed, for Captain Bailey had just told us that we had “ s¢é// 30 
seconds more ”—which I heard mentally, though not with my ears, 
as “only 30 seconds more”—the structure of the corona was 
simply exquisite and strongly developed. I at once exclaimed, 
“like Orion!” Thousands of interlacing filaments varying in 
intensity were visible, in fact I saw an extension of the prominence- 
structure in cooler material. This died out somewhat suddenly 
5’ or 6 
the rapidly increasing sunlight. I then returned to the Savart, 
and saw exactly what I had seen during the eclipse; the vertical 
my attention to them, I am, however, not prepared to say that 
they were visible through a large are of retreating cusp. : 
r. Thomson confined his observations to the polariscope, ear 3 
the Savart, He states that his observations were identical wit 
at eras . . . 
Mr. Davis’s photographie tent was below the cavalier in which 
our telescopes had been erected; and immediately after the ob- 
servations I have recorded were over, I went down to see what 
the exception of the sketchers, with General Selby at their head, 
who have recorded most marked changes in the form of the outer 
corona, and Mr. Webster, who was 80 good as to photograph the 
eclipse from a fort some eight miles away, with an ordinary camera, 
and obtained capital results. : 
Next a word about the Poodocottah, the other fortunate Indian 
party. Prof. Respighi has promised to send his results to you 
With this. About Mr. Holiday’s labors I know nothing, except 
that he has obtained three sketches. 
