Show OF THE BUN next friday there will bo be a 16 total eclipse of tile tho sun although Altti ough it will be a total eclipse yet it will not bo be seen been as total in any ally part of the western hemisphere but will ill bo be seen it na a a partial ellipse eclipse in fit greenland and alaska it will bo be wholly invisible in tho the united states proper the path of totality et tends from a point it a little to the west of berlin through germany Clerma russia siberia and japan and ends in tile the pa c ocean at a point about east of greenwich the greatest duration of totality is ia in siberia in the neigh but hood 0 of I 1 lake I 1 like baikal but owing to the difficulty of transporting heavy beavy instruments very few observing parties will g go 0 o to siberia the duration of totality at any one ona place o vi hero h ere the eclipse will drobil bly bo be observed eil will be lias less than llian three minutes most moat of tile tho observing parties es will be in russia not far front from the lines 0 of railroad radiating from iii il city la is IL title to tile the south of the path of totality two parties have gone gona from this country professor D I 1 P I 1 todd of amherst College will absolve e the hie eclipse in japan and ami professor ga A young will vill take taho ell argo of a baily pal ty which goes to rufila there are several little interesting it iter questions on oil A litch it is hoped that observations Bu ions made during the total eclipse may throw some bonio light one is as to the nature and extent of the corona carona or outer envelope of the sun gun and the possible changes which may take place in it during rig the hour and a half ibach elapses between tho the begin beginning nin I 1 g ot or totality in germany German yand and russia and the end 0 totality in in japan another question of great interest will bo be the extent and character clui acter of the and tho the ej aill narrower nan stratum at its ita base where occurs the reversal re erBal of most if not all of the frami hofer lines of the holar spectra according to who still believe in the reversing or A number of the parties will photograph the corona ona and its spectrum there may be some search for or an inara menu lial blanot i lanet but the weight of opinion at present seems to bo be against the existence exis of riny any ono one large body and it ft la Is general ly y thought that the matter between mercury lei iury and tile sun is fit in separate par tiola like a meteor swarm or ring of asteroids a s ter olds we will awalt the results of the as trono mors ft inith i th eagerness as aa we feel coll confident aident that lome home fresh theory will bo be nd vanceil as a consequence |