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Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 



[Sept. 



each other. In the double flame b, even the most careless observer 

 could not fail to notice the radiating lines or streaks, and it only 

 required ordinary care to detect the same phenomenon in a, the lines 

 composing this, as before remarked, being finer and more minute 

 than in b. 



The red protuberance e 2 shewed no markings. 



We judged from our sketches and from estimation that a attained 

 about 2' of altitude. Professor Spurer of the German astronomical 

 party who obtained a glimpse of about 4 seconds' duration of the total 

 phase, judged this protuberance to be about 3' high. He had so short 

 a time for observation that he mistook b for a single point. 



I had an opportunity of comparing our small instruments with the 

 magnificent ones furnished by the Prussian Government to their 

 observers who unfortunately selected a spot some 15 miles from 

 Beejapoor, whence the sun was invisible almost throughout the eclipse. 

 My telescope bore the tests it was put to in a most satisfactory man- 

 ner ; its definition is surprising. On the morning of the eclipse, the 

 sun spots as seen through my telescope, could have been faithfully 

 depicted with the point of a fine etching pen ; with the other tele- 

 scopes I examined, the same spots would have to be drawn with a 

 camel's hair pencil and shaded with indian ink. "With the 46 power 

 eye-piece Saturn's ring, one of his bands, and one of his satellites, are 

 visible ; the fgecula? on the sun, especially; in the neighbourhood of 

 spots, being clearly perceptible. 



The folio wins: table shews our time observations : — 





Computed by 

 Proff. Pogson. 



Observed 



by us. 



Diff. 



S. 



Eemarks. 



1st Contact, 



Totality commenced, 



Totality ended, 



Last contact, 



7 50 54 



9 2 9 



9 7 21 



10 28 44 



7 50 25 



9 1 49 



9 6 59 



10 28 14 



29 

 20 



22 

 30 



Estimated by Captain 



Tanner's Observations. 

 Estimated by Kern Luxi- 



mun. 

 Noted by Captain Tanner 



and Kern Luximun. 

 Noted by Capt. Haig 



and 2 seconds later by 



Capt. Tanner.* 





* Captain Tanner's time was noted when a high, well denned mountain or 

 the moon's limb left the sun. 



Captain Haig's observation was made when this mountain was distinctly 

 projected on the sun's disc. 



