Show Discovery nl About Boston Mass Nov E n C Picketing Pickering director of ot tho the Harvard ob ohm observatory has made u II discovery that he lie regards as ns Important In a a state statement uncut ment Just out he ho says The rho spectrum of ot u n streak of at light lightning lightning lightning ning was photographed last July Juh From such a n small beginning two t discoveries have Ilao developed Not only are the chem ical elements el compounds but It Is likely that hydrogen h drogen Itself which chemical theorists have thought to be bethe bethe bethe the one clement of ot which the others would sooner or later Inter to he ho com corn compounds pounds seems to bo ho of ot composite na mun nature nature ture Other photographs made malle at about tho the same panic time show the tho curious tact fact act that the tho spectrum of or lightning Is not always the tho Some of ut the photographs show n a doubling of ot the tho bright br ht lines hines Prof Irot Pickering was at first Inclined ld to believe that this was n a port Fort ot of compo composite site photograph photo but he now concludes that the doubling looks no nil though hy by drogen the only element studied In the tIme lightning spectrum anti and hitherto be believed believed to l hA n least likely ever to be proved a n compound body boJ Is made up of ot at least three components This conclusion he bases upon tho the fact that there thero were thirty lines In tho the hydrogen spectrum on one photograph three thure In another and one OM in the tM third the thue different Hashes having been photo photographed photographed graphed under different circumstances Another remarkable circumstance In connection with the study of ot picturing spectra of oC lightning Mashes hashes Is III i that hat they are similar to that of oC the time second new star In the constellation Perseus known ns as Nova Persel No 2 which were taken on March 23 1901 1501 I |