Excerpt from Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, Vol. 15: Part I., Edited Under the Authority of the Council, Issued August, 1902 Of course his argument falls to the ground if, on the night of 23rd February, the bright bands were absent from the spectrum. It seems to me that the presence of the bright edges of the fine absorptions, recorded by Pickering, may be regarded as doubtful, seeing that Vogel got no trace of them on plates taken under' better atmospheric conditions the latter observer, indeed, is of opinion that a large part of the bright light of the continuous spectrum of that night was due to very dense hydrogen. If this be the case, these observations, taken alone, do not furnish the experz'mem'um cruel}, which will have to be discussed - if at all - oh the basis of evidence furnished by the later observations. 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.