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BEFORE this reaches the hands of our readers, both sections of the English Government Eclipse Expedition will be on their way, the one to Spain and Algiers, the other to Sicily. The article in our last number will have given a general idea of the work to be done, and we think it will be admitted that seldom has so much work been laid out to be accomplished in a brief two minutes. To choose the right men for so important an investigation in a scientific point of view has been no easy task; but the list may now be looked on with satisfaction as comprising men of known ability, and of tried powers of observation in the various departments of Science concerned. Astronomy, chemistry, spectroscopy, photography, pure physics, are all worthily represented; and from our Paris intelligence this week it will be seen that there is good hope of M. Janssen being able to leave Paris to join in the Expedition.
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The Eclipse Expedition . Nature 3, 101 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/003101a0
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