IOWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 
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At 8:85 a. m. the sky towards the west and northwest was 
an intensely deep purple color, and in the east and southeast 
a pale gray shade. Five minutes later the sky near the 
zenith was a deep blue purple and light purplish-gray along 
the far horizon, and during totality the colors in all direc- 
tions were surpassingly beautiful; above, the sky was deep, 
purplish-black, while along the distant horizon rose rings 
of orange and gray, reminding one of a summer sunset. At 
8:44 a. m. the shadow bands were observed as narrow, 
tremulous, quickly moving parallel bars, which continued 
until totality, and reappeared afterwards. 
PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE CORONA. 
I watched the disappearing crescent of sunlight through 
the telescope, using the solar eye-piece until totality 
began, when I immediately made an exposure of 1 second 
on a Seed’s 26x dry plate in the larger camera; reversed 
the plate holder and made another exposure of about 5 
Figure 7. Photograph of the Corona ot the solar eclipse of May 28, 1900. 
seconds, then opened the shutter of the smaller camera 
expecting to close it just before totality ended. Unfortu- 
nately I forgot it until some 10 seconds afterward, hence 
the resulting negative was not very satisfactory. The 1 
