CLEMENT WRAGGE'S OBSERVATIONS.
Received May 20, 9.55 a.m. LAUNCESTON, May '20. Mr Clement Wragge reports making careful observation}? of the Comet's transit with a special solar telescope. The only indication of the transit was the display of an auroral or magnetic glare all round the solar edge, and the sunlight slightly misty. Whilst the observations were on progress a magnificent group of solar storms were witnessed. . He adds that altogether observations show the nucleus of the comet to ba (not?) solid, but an aggregation of cosmical electrons in violent motion repelled outwardly by the pressure of solar light, thus forming a tenuous tail The barometric pressure was perfectly steady, but the compass needle seemedto slightly quiver, and we may yet hear o;f electrical storms. Reverting to the storms witnessed in the sun, he says they are favourable to further earthquake and volcanic action in the regions of seismic activity.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12518, 21 May 1910, Page 5
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