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Atlantic as one of the strongest inducements for Americans to visit 

 Europe in the coming summer, he invited attention to its course 

 across Europe. Entering Norway near Bergen, the shadow crosses 

 both coasts of Norway, both coasts of Sweden, and the eastern 

 coast of the Baltic ; then ranges through Poland and the south 

 frontier of Russia across the sea of Azof through Georgia to the 

 Caspian Sea. It passes Christiania, Goteborg, Carlscrona, Danzig, 

 Konigsberg, Warsaw, and Tifiis. A great part of this course, espe- 

 cially that from Bergen to Konigsberg, is very accessible by sea, 

 and Warsaw by land. The Lecturer trusted that many English 

 travellers might be induced to observe this eclipse. If possible, 

 stations should be chosen as well near the northern and southern 

 boundaries of the shadow as near the centre. No particular skill in 

 astronomical observation is required, the phaenomena being rather of 

 a more generally physical kind : and indeed, as far as the observa- 

 tions of the eclipse of 1842 showed, the travelling physicists had 

 been more successful than the stationary astronomers. The appa- 

 ratus required would depend on the special objects of the observer ; 

 a telescope and a watch might be considered indispensable in every 

 case : for analysis of light, a common prism and a polariscope might 

 be taken by some persons : photometry, actinometry, &c., might be 

 interesting to others, and appropriate instruments would be required : 

 other observers would be interested in meteorology. The apparatus 

 which the lecturer considered it most important to perfectionate 

 now, for use during the eclipse, is photogenic apparatus ; it would 

 be impossible to set too high a value on a series of Daguerreotypes 

 or Talbotypes of the sun and corona taken duriirg the eclipse. 



The Lecturer concluded by saying that a series of suggestions for 

 the observation, accompanied by a map, had been prepared by a 

 Committee of which he is a member, and were nearly ready to leave 

 the printer's hands : and he undertook to transmit a copy of these 

 suggestions to any person who would make application to him. 



LXXIII. Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 



OBITUARY. RICHARD PHILLIPS, F.R.S. &C. 



IT is our painful duty to record the death of Mr, Richard 

 Phillips, on the 11th of May, after a short illness, in the 

 seventy-third year of his age. He has been one of the editors 

 of this Magazine from the time the Annals of Philosophy were 

 incorporated with it — of which latter publication he was sole Con- 

 ductor from the year 1821. Mr. Phillips first attracted the 

 attention of the scientific world by his publication in 1805 of 

 " Analyses of the Bath-waters;" this was immediately followed 

 by the examination of other mineral waters, and he continued to 

 devote much of his attention to this then untrodden field of re- 



