SOLAR ECLIPSE OE AUGUST -i'), IbSG. 
387 
7 14 30 
7 15 5 
7 ]5 50 
7 16 0 
7 20 0 
7 23 15 
7 24 10 
7 25 17 
Light cloud passing. 
Quite cloudy. 
End of totality ; cloud lifted for five seconds. 
Quite cloudy. 
Clear. 
Cloudy. 
Clear. 
Clouded up for some time. 
After the eclipse the instruments were quickly dismounted, and, with the huts, 
were placed on board a small steamer, the “Waltham,” which, on Wednesday, 
September 1, conveyed us back round the south coast to St. George’s, stopping at 
Prickly Point on the way, to pick up a lighter containing the instruments and baggage 
of the southern party. I returned to England with some other members of the expe¬ 
dition by the mail which left Grenada on the following Sunday. 
II. Observations. 
(a) The Order of Ajypearance of Certain Bright Lines of the Chromosphere and. 
Inner Corona. 
In the programme arranged before the expedition left England, I was directed to 
attempt the confirmation of Mr. Lockyer’s observations before and after totality 
during the Egyptian eclipse of 1882. These are described briefly, with promise of 
further details, in the ‘Poy. Soc. Proc.’ for 1882 (pp. 291 et seq.), and it will be 
sufficient here to reproduce the following paragraphs from this paper for convenience 
(ibid. p. 296, §§ 10-13). The observations were intended as a test of two rival 
hypotheses. 
“ On the old hypothesis the construction of the Solar atmosphere was imaged as 
follows:— 
“ (l) We have terrestrial elements in the Sun’s atmosphere. 
“ (2) They thin out in the order of vapour density, all being represented in the lower 
strata, since the Solar atmosphere at the lower level is incompetent to dissociate them. 
“ (3) In the lower strata we have especially those of higher atomic weight, all 
together forming a so-called ^ reversing layer, by which chiefly the Fraunhofer 
spectrum is produced. 
“ The new hypothesis necessitates a radical change in the above views. According 
to it, these three statements require to be changed, as follows :— 
“(1) If the terrestrial elements exist at all in the Sun’s atmosphere, they are in 
process of ultimate formation in the cooler parts of it. 
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