Show THE TRANSIT OF VENUS AT the januar meeting of tho the britch royal astronomical society professor newcomb of washington aho be wont to south alt alrica rion in ia charge of ono one of ilia ibo american erving barbic par bic pave gave ft A brief a of tho the result tho the station elect ed cd won WM Well cilcy elcy about forty fino do mile northeast of copo cape tonn A oo on tho the moral morning 9 0 of I 1 the transit so ay the rie professor fesson tho the 61 eky y waa game hat clouded hat the bo weather improved and I 1 think that thab during tho the hourd of the tr annit which commenced about it 3 tho the definition of the sun it un as as floe flat as aa I 1 liaro have cor seen it lit in my any jiro I 1 lucre here was waa but onu one ph phenomenon thal v naif I 1 a orthy of note and thit WB was so 0 o well makad that it could not cocaine cacnio any one it we wai A line of light that surrounded tin our rounded the dark he oc venus which venal jhc aut I 1 looked very cart carefully fully before firt contact to see cee uli w ether it iduas u n poti blo to boo co vonna projected epou the corona but bub I 1 we un nil blo ablo to reo aeo any sign of thu the fc until it lad dad actu aliv entered upon the enni anna dismay di r when it WAS halt halfway on oil wt app appealed AP it if a piece of tho the sun lind bad been sharply lm rily cut oil oua a gulfo nuil bud abo aadu of liftig IS it boa been di liy hy s inary ob jb cerveria fer Per vera veria anil which I 1 bi bat loosed fur in ia vain before begin to liow allow itself iti olt but it wan not nob contu all round tho the or 01 too the co coat it uns out apen cn ot it critt milti tIu iii points As A the contat el ad I 1 found that the line ilia of halit became brighter and for sonic i am bonds L lo 10 lore foro internal iDt croal contact it was quite coustau oui one and imas a seen nit am a fine arc of light joining tho the capla CU ca pla IIA of tho the full un it vaa so eo bright I 1 g that it som ebat interfered with ones judgment tit in determining the I 1 be tune time finhen the solar cusps met the be were a BOine what blunted blu old or spread out by irradiation whereas the line of light around the wax was narrow and ando harp I 1 ed cd the cusps gradually dissolve into tills thu ratio of alg and for a period of ova mcconda there vlas vaa a certain hesitation in ia toy my mind as a to the character of the phenomena and whether tho the truo iron geometrical contact had bad or had not taken place after that fi me a occo mcconda Bc conda cias I 1 tho the halit began to how flow in on bittor side dido with grcar i nod and thon then I 1 did not ant notice anything like a stile ibo planet and the suras limb EY A y wr ar |