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fine hairs with aigrettes or radiations from
both poles, and streamers from the equator.
[Illustration: SOLAR ECLIPSE, 1882.
From drawing by W. H. Wesley, Secretary
R.A.S.; showing the prominences, the corona,
and an unknown comet.]
On September 19th, 1868, eclipse spec-
troscopy began with the Indian eclipse, in
which all observers found that the red promi-
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