V. — ASTEONOMY. 



Art. LIX. — The Total Eclipse of the Sun of the 9th September, 

 1885 ; being a Digest of the following Communications to the 

 Institute on the subject : — 



A.— On the Total Eclipse of the Sun, 9th September, 1885. 

 By John Meeson, B.A. Bead before the Nelson Philo- 

 sophical Society, 2nd November, 1885. 



B.— On the Total Eclipse of the Sun, 9th, September 1885. 

 By the Bight Bev. Dr. Suter, Bishop of Nelson. 

 Bead before the Nelson Philosophical Society, 2nd 

 November, 1885. 



C. — On the Total Eclipse of 9th September, 1885, as seen at 

 Tahoraite. By John Goodall, M.I.C.E. Bead before 

 the Hawke's Bay Philosophical Institute, 14th September, 

 1885. 



D.— On the Total Eclipse of the Sun, 9th September, 1885. 

 By A. S. Atkinson. Bead before the Nelson Philo- 

 sophical Society, 2nd November, 1885. 



E.— On the Total Eclipse of the Sun, 9th September, 1885. 

 By Dr. Hudson. Bead before the Nelson Philosophical 

 Society, 2nd November, 1885. 



F. — Observations on the Solar Eclipse of 9th September, 1885. 

 By A. Coleman. Bead before the Nelson Philosophical 

 Society, 2nd November, 1885. 



Plates XIV., XV., XVI. 



[Note by the Editor. — The section of the moon's shadow, 

 as it swept over the earth's surface, was in the shape of 

 an ellipse, 190 miles in length by 90 miles in width. The 

 only land crossed by the shadow was that part of New Zea- 

 land lying in the vicinity of Cook Strait, so that the total 

 phases could only be observed there ; the line of centrality 

 sweeping in the shape of a curve from a point half-way 

 between Australia and New Zealand, where the sun was rising 

 at the time of totality, to a point between Cape Horn and 

 the South Pole, latitude 75° S., where the sun was setting at 



