Excerpt from Light Science for Leisure Hours: Third Series; Familiar Essays on Scientific Subjects, Natural Phenomena, &C IN volume of Essays I have included a series of papers relating to the great Solar Eclipses which have been successfully observed since the year 1868, - papers written at the time, and describing the anticipations formed as each eclipse approached, and the results actually obtained during the progress of the eclipse. I have removed portions of those papers which are now practically out of date, but I have left enough to afford what I think will be found an interesting history of the progress of eclipse observation during the past fifteen years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.