New-York tribune., 1879-09-01


paper on tho Identity of tho Lines of Oxygen
with Rights Solar Lines, as shown IN photo
rraphs taken with Increased Dispersion" Professor
Draper WAS not present however. being detained
away on account OF Illness and the paper was read
bv the president of the association, George
f. Barker Section chemistry met with Sec1ion
during the reading of the paper The supjee'
WAS illustrated by cTavOn drawings on oi'cA-
board. and thereby tho necessarily tecnnioai ia"-
euace of the author was made popular by The gen
te,pan who read the paper. The following Is an
abstract of this important paper:
The writer, at some length reviewed 'he hiS'orJ "
the discovery OF oxygen in the sum- ana "a''u '"o
gin OF The apparatus employed IN making tue discover
and then pointed out the naip,c OF thc cNluehce
bv the yhotographs-wbicb have been '"""o "
himself The first photographs werc Oh b"
small a scale that they did not even EN"
rise TO suspicion OF t.is fact, ana IL WIS ho' ""
1870 Dr. Dr.ter says that felt sufficiently sure 10
make any publication. A. this time INC oTHina' neS
tiyes were a9out tive inches ions hhd 'n'! "o'c VI ~
,sry.,ncut OF three faur times qaiic we Ino Aioe
trne r,,ot.l in 1877 was produced from snch an
esiar.eu,cr5 since thar tmc N order 10 hsec' ,
ss :" .ls he lack Il COINCIDENCE, If sncs
.x,scd have increas ID the dispersion TOUT pi @ mr
t,n,@s .n' ar hil, enabled t. make enargod pno.SS
,rathS on sclle abou. the size q An ssi.o,
Quart Enilrgemenis or me Ju'iOpo'een - .9an ~ w
,,, ~, rms seale are nov prcsenei Tor iH-poc'"H
the audience Professor Draper, photograph Of the
sctr,,n - il is enlarged from the original, ana -
reference 10 lattored lines series Ci lines oa TIE
two divisions of the photograph the reader was
enabicd 10 make clear TIE language he was reading
Professor Draper contaued
or coursc AZ cn'ar cement rever do sJustco 20 ths
original from whca II was produced ahd IN or'er u"
.tuIy ho ra-teg faithfully, the negative must DO e1-
anined oaroi .y vita uagnter. Besides ib!s. o"ins
partly To the fact that the solar speetrurs has
su6 red from absOr?tiyc innlencts ooih y tne
earths d.. ussyherc IN tic srier atria'9hrie tHe
conditions urtcr which ;he "STs,a-sre t'um j. seen
wlon compared a th' sp4i -, e. "i' ar az -" ~
Ia .;4ci. c';c sirry 81 ~ ."" -: ,'I" "a, n..e ~
,,ht,, ,,.s,,h. with "a, % res .,ii... region Of
' - o - ,,,'~,.rur, - r.fr..' pcss.l t.,s same
o1t.t,,. a. ,a.n ~ a,,se of the ..e-
ticrs which ma. 30 caused - 80 s9.~r aiIicrp- 'As
supgosi;iOn .; absorption nrs On .hs ,'i .sc
oxygen may be ncntbned H. rs iehS 20 -. & 80, 80.
tue straturI slyln iie spectrum ia 'r sun 'e'
de' per thsu 'hS rccurii1S Ter s. ,, iu,' ios
soo no r,"so' why an az aD+ va ~; h,.c IT, ~
instance. lay no. T.. dpon al O1yE- ~ ~ o''''i ~
suppor, ~ Dis suplpsion that oxygen l. photos plete
n mn =. n, stat That. taongii nave examined Tie
rbro.n .sahc-e on many occasions, nave moi rs
% 'Gee ,s app.rsn npg snF limb Il the sna as oeorvea
IN the speciroscope, although several OF lno
rea,tv visible 0n con.ultns With Professor Yoans
Le exprcssed the opinion tr"t the oxygen trucp'
lin. i'm the ch-omo sphere, unGer the oxccpiiuh
sbly favorable chcun. tances enjoyed hy Sherman For
also examining sri areas ol The snn,IOeun, l~etc
Avian Ozark sons ara constructing special spreiro
sron, tor me NAich give tha dlSpt sion oi ."ehy
nesvy Gnt prisms and can Senr high mAshIiyiig
PTit be conceded that there bright lines in ,he
spectrum a. tie sOir dsc, Which seems l" ~ TIC ppm
ion OF seyef"l a." the GaoSion Of
tbrir OrilIn naturally attracts attention III seems
tnaf tarro Is great probability, from general Cnrnic1l
rcSs.rs tbnt a nnnlbrr OF the oc-ueias may exist
thc sra the obvious continuation "i ths teeearch IL III
mat directl,n Bar the subject is sHIrounaed 10y
difcnliy OF catching the conditions as To-
tonprature. pressure, ETC.. found III the
.Torcn carbon. aud has observed tie niaa-
ne in Witch tn spectrum changes by VARIATIONS oi heat
anl rresSure VIII realize that 1t Is Wei D.Eh in
possible to hit upon TIE exact conditions nh"ef
wh.oA such bodies exist al tH' ieIti OF tLe AZ
nlcapntrr. The fact that oxygen, within certain
range ~ yariston, suffers less chause th'n Others
of The noEnetA:s has been tHe see.et %. itn u''.y
ton IN ihe II appears 10 nave greater stihi-
~ o constitutions, though sehu'ter has s'own that S
spectrum may be maze 10 Valf. HL'o a. s.tth.l me- p'ui
an extended series of experiments on TIC n"-n"Ias
bat inc exhibit such confusion that tnir bearing
cannot ut present De- distinctly seen.
ION the wholc" Professor Draper writes. t docs not
seem improper 10 take The Elound That naVins
shown b photographs that tL or Kit ines "i Tue o&'
gen spark spectrum all fl cpfus'ic lfs5t portions 81
lis le the probability the existence IA The
run Causes that eau modify In som in''rnso tno
vlOusly exist the and these. u may 80 nerrsd
exert nhucnce s 10 account Tor hIcl minor uuei
ences as may DC detected
,tR HENDERSON on s.RPRNl WORSHIP
Section f.. which had under ems .eration to-day
the subject of AnIhropology. was presided over by
Dr. Daniel Wilson. of Toronto, with }. q. Hender-
SON. Of Springfield. Ill.,, as secretary Three of tho
subjects on the programme for to-day wofo disposed
Of but the one on 81 he sign Language of the North
American Indians" bV Lleutenant-Colone Garrck
Mallery of tho United States Army, w. deferred
till the next meeting The secretary, Mr. HcndeT-
SOD read two papers, oa the subject 81 Serpent
Worship Among tne Indians" the other " Lac Ero
and the Erie" The latter a snort essay
intended 20 correct what the author deems
a long standing error with reference to
tbe meaning of the word Eric. 1t has
ecno1ally beon held to mean "cat" thus giving
tbe name OF Cats to tie tribe OF Fries and Cat Lake
70 the water known "a Lake Erie. Mr.. henderson
claimed that the word means raccoon in the orIgi-
nal. ard that the error TO meaning into
vogue by the coufounding By the early French cx
nlorers of the wild cat with the raceoon, both of
which animals abounded, but the latter being the
most numerous.
Mr. Henderson's paper on Serpent Worship" 4"
among tine Indians of the Msslssippi Valley. was
long and exhaustive, but it contained 40 much OF
curious interest that the little room in which the
section met became crowded the reading pro-
cee,let Tho following 10 the principal part of this
interesting paper
the expression "as wise rs u serpent and as
harmless as II dove" said Mr. HondcrsOn, is the
stauciDg over OF superstition, far as the
wisdom OF the former ia concerned. tnat had
it's origin In the lowest stage OF sayagery. The
deadly poison, noscless ami mysterious means of
prosresslon the casting OF the skin and apparent re-
generation of the serpent aro well calculated ID
s,ire in savage II dread and vencfatiOn for it.
10 this day the hgure OF the serpen is as AL en-
elcm OF eternity, because OF TINS superstition Respect
Ing the power the snake to its youth We
The force OF tnis In the legend OF the fall OF Eve. This
trace or superstition among the cnl tened OF The
world snould reprOOf when inclined to
sueer at ne sacred Teiaons which exist between tine
ab0rlclnes or this country and the reptiles OF the
wood. and the praric- Like nil Yage
men tho Indians attributed 10 supernatural DO wer
every event or phenomenon which tncy could
not understand explain. The steslthy IN j.