(> TRANSIT OF VENUS, 1874. HONOLULU. 



Princess RUTH, at the suggestion of Governor DOMINIS, of Oahu, considerately 

 vacated her own house, known as HONUAKAHA HALK, and allowed it to be 

 rented on liberal terms. 



6. It is difficult to do justice to the exertions of Captain R. P. CATOR, R.N., 

 of H.M.S. Scout, who remained at Honolulu until the middle of December, 

 and of Commander VAN der MEULEN, R.N., of H.M.S. Tenedos, to whose 

 careful forethought and continual personal superintendence the success of 

 the Expedition was in no small degree due. After the tedious operations 

 of transporting the chronometers backwards and forwai'ds to the Islands of 

 Hawaii and Kauai, the Tenedos was succeeded by H.M.S. Reindeer, Commander 

 C. V. ANSON, by whose cordial co-operation the outlying parties were brought 

 back to Honolulu, and the Expedition finally taken to San Francisco on its 

 way home. 



7. Mr. David FLITNER, of Honolulu, who himself successfully observed the 

 Ingress of Venus at Waiakiki, most generously lent a number of marine 

 chronometers to assist in the longitude operations. Captain D. SMITH also 

 lent a chronometer for the same purpose. 



8. I cannot close these remarks without recording the friendly welcome 

 accorded to the members of the Expedition by the American and British 

 communities of Honolulu. It would be invidious to mention a few names 

 when all were so kind and hospitable that the reminiscences of our six 

 months' sojourn on that far distant island will ever be of the most agreeable. 



PERSONNEL. 



9. The observing party at Honolulu consisted of Lieutenant F. E. RAMSDEN, 

 R.N., who undertook the management of the Photographic Department, 

 and also assisted in astronomical observations ; Lieutenant (now Captain) 

 E. J. W. NOBLE, R.M.A. ; J. W. NICHOL, Esq.,* F.R.A.S., formerly assistant 

 at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh ; and myself. In the following pages 

 these observers are distinguished by the letters R., No., Ni., and T. respectively. 



10. There were also attached to the Expedition Lance- Corporal CURRY and 

 Sappers M. MEINS and J. MYERS, Royal Ens/Mieers, who rendered most effective 

 assistance generally, and in the Photographic Department especially, and 

 voluntarily kept the four-hourly Meteorological Register during our stay at 

 Honolulu. 



* Mr. Nichol died in November 1878. 



