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WE are indebted to NATURE (136, p. 606) for an admirably sharp picture from Dr. Royds setting out his discovery (by its emission spectrum, which is in excess of its absorption as an atmosphere) of a layer of oxygen about a thousand miles deep at the base of the solar chromosphere. As he hints, his graph of intensities gives data for the law of distribution of oxygen-density with height: and he refers to a forthcoming Kodaikanal Bulletin for a discussion of this fundamental problem. But where is one to find it? When I was a member of the Indian Observatories Committee, the Bulletin came to me regularly, and was often of intense observational interest, which I sometimes exploited: but about twenty years ago my place on the Committee was vacated, and I have never seen a Bulletin since, nor do I know how to find one. Yet I am still favoured with personal copies of American and French astronomical reports. I am, moreover, by way of contrast, often overloaded with astronomical theory coming from the Royal Society and the Royal Astronomical Society, in the main too complicated analytically for my slow rate of appreciation, as an amateur no longer young. The brief accounts in Science Abstracts come therefore as a relief.
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LARMOR, J. The Accessibility of Discoveries. Nature 136, 722 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136722b0
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