shape -of the portion of the sun visible at that time.Smoked glasses ahd expased photographic films were much in demand among' the (people of Delphcs at the time of the eclipse, these being necessary at all times, even when the eclipse approached nearest to totality, j There was no opportunity here to view,other heavenly -bodies at the time of the eclipse. Although Jupiter and j Mercury, two of the planets, and Reg-ulus, a star of the first magnitude, were, near the sun at the time and i• k icould be viewed ak places where the : eclipse; became total, the light of the sun was too bright here to permit observers to see these other heavenly bodies.