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The Solar Spectrum

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MAY I venture to suggest that quite possibly something of value might be obtained by observing the sun during totality with a spectroscope of reasonable dispersive power (say four or five prisms) without a collimator, or even simply with one of the so-called meteor spectroscopes.

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