ASTRONOMY. 291 



Sautiago de Chile : 



Chief astronomer, Prof. Lewis Boss. 



Assistant astronomer, Mr. Miles Eock, assistant astronomer, 

 United States jSTaval Observatory. 



Photographer, Mr. Theo. C. Marcean. 



Assistant photographer, Mr. Charles S. Ciidlip. 

 San Antonio, Tex. : 



Chief astronomer, Prof. Asaph Hall, U. S, !N". 



Assistant astronomer, Mr. R. S. Woodward. 



Photographer, Mr. D. R. Holmes. 



Assistant photographer, Mr. George H. Hurlbut. 

 Cedar Keys, Fla. : 



Chief astronomer, Prof. J. R. Eastman, U. S. N. 



Assistant astronomer, Lieut. John A. Forris, U. S. N. 



Photographer, Mr. George Prince. 



Assistant photographer, Mr. George F. Maxwell. 

 Fort Thorn, N. Mex. : 



Chief astronomer. Prof. George Davidson, United States Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey. 



Assistant astronomer, Mr. J. S. Lawson. 



Second assistant astronomer, Mr. J. F. Pratt. 



Photographer, Mr. D. C. Chapman. 



Assistant photographer, Mr. T. S. Tappan. 

 Washington, D, C. : 



Chief astronomer. Prof. William Harkness, U.Ni^I^. 



Assistant, Mr. Joseph A. Rogers. 



Assistant, Prof. A. H, Buchanan. 



Assistant, Lieut. Comdr. C. H. Davis, U. S. N. 

 The following is the list of stations selected for the observation of 

 the transit of Venus by English parties, with the observers appointed to 

 each by the executive committee of the Royal Society, acting under the 

 authority of the treasury : 



For retarded ingress and accelerated egress : 



Jamaica. — Dr. Copeland, Captain Mackinlay, R. A., Mr. Maxwell 



Hall. 

 Barbadoes. — Mr. Talmage, Lieutenant Thomson, R. A. 

 Bermuda. — Mr. J. Plummer, Lieutenant Neate, R. ]N". 

 (The Canadian Government will have three observers with six-inch 

 instruments, besides others with smaller telescopes. These observers 

 are acting in direct concert with the British expeditions.) 

 Accelerated ingress : 



Cape Observatory. — Mr. David Gill (H. M. astronomer), Mr. Maclear, 



second assistant. 

 Montague Eoad, Cape Colony.— Mr. W. H. Finlay (first assistant at 

 the Cape), Mr. Pett. 



