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Abstract

OWING to Mr. Lockyer having been summoned to Malta to give evidence at the court-martial on the commander of the unfortunate Psyche (which we regret to hear has not been saved), we are unable to give a detailed report of the procecdings of the Sicilian Eclipse Expedition. We understand that Mr. Brothers, who was stationed at Syracuse, obtained five photographs of the Eclipse during totality. One of these shows the corona “as it was never seen on glass before.” At Augusta very little was seen; but at Syracuse, the southernmost station of all, the clouds which concealed the earlier stages of the Eclipse, passed away from the sun about five minutes before totality, “disclosing,” writes Mr. Brothers, “a scene I shall never forget.” Next week we shall hope to be able to give a complete account of the results of the Expedition, and their bearings on any increase of our knowledge of Solar Physics.