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...Nicholas Kelley '06, a former editor of the CRIMSON and former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury at Washington Mr. Kelley has served in many diplomatic capacities involving financial arrangements, being in 1921 in charge of all loans to foreign governments. He is an officer of the Ordine della Corona d'Italia, an honor conferred upon him by the King of Italy...
...undergraduate at the University, W. M. Powell '26, and not E. R. Hewett, Princeton '89 as previously announced, took the first colored photograph in history of the sun's corona during a total eclipse. This face hitherto generally unknown was discovered yesterday by the Crimson...
Powell, moreover, took six successful photographs, four of the corona, and two of the sky, in order to bring out the depth of color apparent at the height of the eclipse. Mr. Hewitt, on the other hand, apparently took only one. He used the same process as that adopted by the Princeton man, the Lumiere super-sensitized plate, but adapted it to eclipse photography after careful research work...
...photographs are now with Dr. J. A. Miller, head of the Sproul Observatory at Swarthmore, where they will be exhibited at an important Astronomical conference on February 28. Powell said that his two small photographs of the corona were almost perfect and brought out the original colors of the corona flames very clearly. He added, "The eclipse was altogether unfavorable for colored photography work, since there was less color than is usually apparent. Nevertheless, the pictures bring out the different shades of red, green, and yellow quite vividly...
...That-according to reports based on the first photographs developed-there was a considerable number of prominences, or projections of the Sun's corona. This was unexpected, since the prominences are believed to be connected with sunspot activity, which at present is small...