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could more forcibly indicate the extreme faintness of the 
outer coronal light. Captain Maclear describes the corona as 
six-pointed. Mr. Lockyer at the same station gives the follow- 
ing account : — “ There, in the leaden-coloured, utterly cloudless 
sky, shone out the eclipsed sun ! a worthy sight for gods and 
men. There, rigid in the heavens, was what struck everybody as 
a decoration, one that emperors might fight for, a thousand 
times more beautiful than the Star of India (even where we 
now are), a picture of surpassing loveliness, and giving one 
the idea of serenity among all the activity that was going on 
below, shining with a sheen as of silver essence {sic), built up of 
rays almost symmetrically arranged round a bright ring, above 
and below, with a marked absence of them right and left, the 
rays being composed of dark radial lines separated by furrows 
of markedly less brilliancy.” -Further on he describes the 
structure of the corona as “ resembling Orion,” though how that 
statement is to be understood is not altogether clear : possibly 
it means that the corona occupied a space on the heavens re- 
sembling in shape that occupied by the constellation Orion ! 
Mr. Holiday, the artist, “ sketched the corona with his right 
eye while the left was at the telescope.” He removed the dark 
glass when Baily’s beads appeared, but the glare was too strong, 
and he at once replaced it. In this momentary glance then 
obtained, he had a view of the rays commonly seen before 
totality, which he imagined to be “ the two great lines marking 
the limit of the advancing shadow.” “ After a few seconds the 
glass was removed, and there, in all its glorious beauty, was a 
grand corona of the most fantastic type, not unlike the one given 
by Liais. To outline this carefully was the work of a few 
seconds.” “ Curiously enough,” proceeds the account (though 
we should have thought “ naturally enough ” the more correct 
reading), there are points of difference and points of agree- 
ment between this drawing and the photographs, which will 
doubtless, when the time comes, undergo the most searching 
examination. After the middle of the eclipse another drawing 
was made, showing that the corona had become much more 
diffuse ” (or rather could be traced much farther) 66 than at 
its first appearance, and it maintained the same form nearly 
till the reappearance of the sun.” 
The photographic results are among the most important suc- 
cesses achieved during the recent eclipse. It will be evident, 
however, that, until the pictures are published, it is not possible 
to give any sufficient idea of the inferences likely to be deduced 
from them. At present it must suffice for us to mention the 
following particulars. At Bekul Mr. Davis took five excellent 
photographs ; Colonel Tennant’s party took three ; Mr. Pogson’s, 
at Avenashi, took three ; while lastly the photographers at 
