28 Report of the Joint Solar Eclipse Committee. [June 8, 



June 8, 1893. 

 The LORD KELVIN, D.C.L., LL.D., President, in the Chair. 



Professor William Burnside, Professor Wyndham R. Dunstan, 

 Mr. William Ellis, Professor J. Cossar Ewart, Dr. Ernest William 

 Hobson, Sir Henry Hoyle Howorth, Mr. Edwin Tulley Newton, Dr. 

 Charles Scott Sherrington, Mr. John Isaac Thornycroft, Dr. Alfred 

 Russel Wallace, and Professor Sydney Young were admitted into the 

 Society. 



A List of the Presents received was laid on the table, and thanks 

 ordered for them. 



Pursuant to the notice given at the last meeting of the Society, 

 the President proposed and the Senior Secretary seconded H.R.H. the 

 Duke of York for election and immediate ballot. The ballot having 

 been taken, His Royal Highness was declared duly elected a Fellow 

 of the Society. 



The following Papers were read : 



I. " Preliminary Report of the Joint Solar Eclipse Committee 

 of the Royal Society, the Royal Astronomical Society, and 

 the Solar Physics Committee on the Observations of the 

 Solar Eclipse of April 16, 1893." By A. A. COMMON, 

 F.R.S. Received June 7, 1893. 



The Joint Committee have requested me to make the following 

 brief report on the observations of the Eclipse. This will be followed 

 shortly by a more complete report. 



The Joint Committee was formed early in 1892, a grant of money 

 was obtained from the Government Grant Fund of the Royal Society, 

 and preparations were at once begun. After due consideration, it 

 was decided to send out two observing expeditions, one to Fundium, 

 on the Salum River, in Senegambia, and one to Para-Guru, in the 

 Province of Ceara, in the northern part of Brazil. With the exception 

 of the work undertaken by Professor Thorpe, the whole of the 

 observations were photographic. Three classes of work were under- 

 taken at each station. 



1st. Photographs of the corona, in continuation of a long and very 

 complete series already taken with the"Abney" lens, and similar 



