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MATURE. 



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contains, besides, six exposures on the cusp tip. 

 The spectrum of the corona shows very faint 

 continuous spectra between .\4800 and /\6700, 

 with several faint hues on each side of the com- 

 parison iron spectrum, and others further removed 

 obviously belong-ing- to the portions of the streamers 

 intersected by the slit. The exposure of the plate 

 was about 95 seconds, and that of the arc 

 spectrum 4 seconds at mid-eclipse. The slit was 

 placed just within the dark limb of the moon on 

 the advancing side. A batch of freshly bathed 

 Panchromatic B plates was kindly forwarded to 

 Hernosand by Messrs. Wratten and Wainwright. 

 On account of the war the programme for our 

 homecoming had to be considerably modified. The 



cordingly we came right down the Scotch and 

 English coasts, and finally were conyoyed into the, 

 mouth of the Tyne by three torpedo-boats. 



A. L. CORTIE. 



THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION IN 

 QUEENSLAND. 



Brisbane, September 4. 

 nPHE final session of the Australian meeting of 

 -*■ the British Association for the Advancement 

 of Science was held in Brisbane on August 2j — 

 September i. It had been arranged that of the 

 320 visiting members of the Association, a party 

 of one hundred should visit New Zealand after 



P/iofo. 



[ Topic u I Press Agency. 

 Fig. I. — An excursion party of the BritUh Association at a wood-chopping contest in the Australian bush. 



plates were at once developed, and the instru- 

 ments speedily dismounted, so that we might 

 catch the first possible steamer from Hernosand to 

 Stockholm. From Stockholm we came across land 

 via Christiania to Bergen, whence we sailed to 

 Newcastle. We had already crossed two Swedish 

 mine fields under the escort of armed vessels, and 

 our passage of the North Sea was no less adven- 

 turous and exciting. We were stopped by a British 

 cruiser and warned of the presence of floating 

 mines laid by the Germans directly in our in- 

 tended course. The lifeboats were got ready, and 

 the course was changed for one to the north of 

 Scotland. A second cruiser pursued us, and, over- 

 taking us, warned us of the danger ahead. Ac- 



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the close of the Sydney Session, and that the 

 remainder should visit Brisbane, where the final 

 official business would be transacted. Unfortun- 

 ately the state of war in which Australasia in 

 common with the rest of the Empire is involved, 

 I interfered somewhat with this arrangement. The 

 j cancellation of the New Zealand meeting caused 

 i a number of those, who would otherwise have 

 gone to the Dominion, to express a desire to visit 

 , Brisbane instead. At the same time the utilisation 

 of the R.M.S. Orvieto as a transport caused a 

 i number of people who had intended returning to 

 i England in her to shorten their visit to Australia. 

 j As a consequence of these changes in personnel 

 I of the party which came to Brisbane the local 



