70 PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION A. 



Eclipse Committee of the Eoyal Society and the Royal Astronomical 

 Society. 



Another official British Expedition, conducted by Dr. Lockyer, 

 of the South Kensington Solar Observatory, on behalf of the Board of 

 Education, England. 



A private party led by and at the expense of Mr. J. Worthington. 



Dr. Stefanik, a French Astronomer, on behalf of the Meudon 

 Observatory. 



The British Expeditions failed, almost entirely o-v^g to unfavor- 

 able weather, but the other parties obtained good results. 



The Commonwealth Government granted the sum of £500 towards 

 the expense of the Australian Expedition. 



P. Baracchi, 

 Government Astronomer. 



TIDAL SURVEY COMMITTEE. 

 (See Vol. XIII., p. LV.) 



C E. Adams, Honorary Secretary. 



New South Wale^. — Mr. G. H. Halligan, Inspecting Engineer, 

 Harbors and Water Supply, Sydney, supplies the following infor- 

 mation : — There are five automatic tide gauges on the New South 

 Wales Coast, situated at the Richmond, Clarence, and Macleay River 

 entrances, and at Newcastle and Sydney Harbors. In order to get 

 the true ocean tides it is hoped the gauges will be established at SoUtary 

 Island, Port Kembla, and Montague Island. 



New Zealand. — Mr. C. E. Adams, Government Astronomer, 

 reports : — Automatic tide gauges are established at Auckland, Napier, 

 Wanganui, WeUington, Lyttelton, Port Chalmers, Dunedin, Bluff, 

 Westport, and Greymouth, and at most of these ports concrete bench 

 ma-rks have been put in. The records of Auckland and WeUington 

 have been harmonically analyzed, and the tides for these two ports 

 have been predicted. Full details are given in the reports of the 

 Department of Lands and Survey for 1909, 1910, 1911, and 1912. 



A tide gauge of a novel form has been constructed and has been 

 running for some months in Wellington (see Lands and Survey Report, 

 1911-12) and it is intended to have this gauge established at Suva. 



An illustrated description of the Wellington tide gauge is given in 

 Trans. N.Z. Institute, Vol. XLI. (1908), p. 407. 



