(594) 
the aid of the Academy of Sciences. Accordingly at the meeting of 
the Section of Sciences of May 1899, on the proposal of Mr. v. D. 
SANDE BAKHUYZEN, an , Kelipse-Committee” was nominated, consisting 
of the astronomical members of the Academy, Messrs. H. G. v. D. 
SANDE BAKHUYZEN, J. A. C. OUDEMANS, J. C. KAPTEYN and B, 
F. v. D. SANDE BAKHUYZEN, and, as the physicist of the Committee, 
Prof. W. H. Jurrus. The Committee, excercising a granted right, 
assumed as further members Messrs. J. H. WILTERDINK and 
A. A. NijLAND, and (on his arrival in Holland in June 1899) 
MrJ: PV. DD TOK: 
The Committee called Mr. H. G. v. Dn. SANDE BAKHUIJZEN to the 
chair and elected Mr. A. A. NIsLAND as their secretary. In the 
years 1899, 1900 and 1901 nine meetings were held. At the request 
of the Committee Messrs. Junius, WILTERDINK and NIJLAND were 
appointed by the Government to take charge of the observations in 
India, and Major J. J. A. MULLER undertook to act as chief of 
the expedition in India. A detailed programme of the observations 
was next drawn up and the necessary instruments were planned and 
bought. (See Proceedings Royal Academy Amsterdam, Vol. III 
pages 529—543). 
In the meantime the Eclipse-fund had increased to f 42000, 
of which no less than f 24000 had been contributed by private 
persons who took an interest in the expedition. Further f 3000 was 
received from various scientific Societies ; the Netherlands Government 
gave a subsidy of f 5000 and the Indian Government promised 
f 10000. 
It must also be mentioned that Messrs. JuLius, KAPTEYN, VAN 
DER Stok and NiJLAND composed a short pamphlet entitled 
„Directions for amateur observers’, which was printed at Batavia 
and of which nearly 500 copies were distributed amongst the officials 
and inhabitants of the path of totality. 
In the meantime preparations for the expedition had been made in 
India by the Royal Physical Society of Batavia, at the request 
of the Government. This Society nominated a Committee, con- 
sisting of Major Murrer, Dr. S. Ficrr and Mr. A. C. ZEEMAN, » 
inspector of the „Gouvernementsmarine” ete. in order to continue 
in a more official manner the work begun by Messrs. MULLER 
and VAN DER Srox. This Committee published in 1900 a pamphlet 
under the title: „Informations for observing parties and climatological 
conditions along the track of the moon’s shadow’’, containing, as the 
result of the investigations which had also partly been made by 
Dr. VAN DER STOK, the data about the climate, the suitability and 
