. Review of reviews and world's work. oxidationand noimally lessactive life of thetropics. W. B. Featherstone in Popular Astronomy. Nordo these names by any means exhaust the list. One of the most interesting historical surveysIS that by Mrs. Mabel Loomis Todd, in the (JiubWoman. Mrs. Todd recalls Americas past ex-perience with these celestial phenomena. In 1860 the Pacific States were traversed bythe moons shadow, and other important darken-ings occurring within our borders were in 1869,when the line extended from Bering Straitthrough Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and Kentuckyto North Carolina ; a
. Review of reviews and world's work. oxidationand noimally lessactive life of thetropics. W. B. Featherstone in Popular Astronomy. Nordo these names by any means exhaust the list. One of the most interesting historical surveysIS that by Mrs. Mabel Loomis Todd, in the (JiubWoman. Mrs. Todd recalls Americas past ex-perience with these celestial phenomena. In 1860 the Pacific States were traversed bythe moons shadow, and other important darken-ings occurring within our borders were in 1869,when the line extended from Bering Straitthrough Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and Kentuckyto North Carolina ; and in 1878, when the tracklay from Texas to Wyoming, crossing Pikes SOLAR ECLIPSES. AP H L) V O S ofthe eclipse oftlie sun on May 28,much interestingmaterial relating tothe solar eclipses ofthe past has ap-peared in the May11 u ni b e rs of themagazines. Newcombhas written on thesubject in Mc-Clures, PL Bigelowin Apphton^s Pop-ular Science Month-hj, and Prof. Wil-liam H. Pickering,Prof. II. C. Wil-son, and Courtesy oi AppUtons Popular Science Mottthly. THACKS OF THE EIGHT NORTH AMERICAN ECLIPSES SEEN SINCE 1800. LEADING ARTICLES OF THE MONTH. 731 Peak in its appalling bat magnificent onwardrush. From that superb vantage-point, over14,000 ieet in air, the observers noted tlie tre-mendous onrush of the shadow, and involunta-rily bent away from the black wall, though know-ing it but an intangible fate which seemed sorelentlessly enveloping them ; and there the greatouter streamers of the suns corona were for thefirst time discovered, extending more than11,000,000 miles into space, so faint as to bealmost beyond the reach of photographic capture,but no less well defined and full of mysteriouslycosmic significance. Again, in 1889, on New Years Day, thefriendly sun was once more eaten by the greatmonster Raliu, his temporary annihilation wit-nessed along a line crossing California and ex-tending to Manitoba. ADVANCES OP ASTRONOMICAL SCIENCE. The subject o
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