314 Scientific Intelligence. 
1474 of Kirchhoff’s scale, and a third in the blue, perhaps coinciding 
with F. 
The green zone surrounding the dise of the moon was the bright- 
est, the most uniform, and the best defined. The red zone was 
also very distinct and well defined, while the blue zone-was faint 
nces, 
These colored zones shone out upon a faintly illuminated ground, 
without any marked trace of color. If the corona contamed rays 
of any other kind, their intensity must have been so” feeble that 
they were merged in the general illumination of the field. 
want of an assistant to note the time, and to write dows 
the observations as they were made, occasioned me some loss ‘ 
time, and the end of the total eclipse was already at hand before 
was aware of it. as 
e green and red zones were well developed at the western 2 
at the eastern limb, while the blue remained faint and ill-defin 
n 
spectral solar lines, or to a simple discontinuity in the eat 
y were too soon immersed in a flood of light, whic? 
‘£2. 
“The reversal of the Fraunhofer lines seems to have bees ee 
factorily observed by Captain Maclear at Bekul, Colonel Teo®” 
