May 18, 1900.] 



SCIENCE. 



763 



We have already described the plans of 

 several of the parties at "Wadesboro. They 

 include one sent out by the British Astro- 

 nomical Association, which successfully ob- 

 served the recent eclipse in India ; a group of 

 observers from Princeton : a party from the 

 Smithsonian Institution ; several astron- 

 omers from the Yerkes Observatory of the 

 University of Chicago, and a party from 

 Vassar College. A great variety of obser- 

 vations will be undertaken by these large 

 parties, the most novel of them being that 

 of measuring the heat radiation of the 

 corona during the ninety seconds of totality, 

 by very delicate bolometers, which will be 

 attempted by some of the members of the 

 Smithsonian and the Yerkes observatory 

 parties. Elaborate spectroscopic investiga- 

 tions will also be made, if the weather per- 

 mits. 



The Lick Observatory sends to Thomas- 

 ton, Georgia, the well equipped expedition 

 already described in this Journal which 

 plans extensive spectroscopic and photo- 

 graphic observations. Another California 

 party, from the Chabot Observatory, will 

 make numerous photographic exposures at 

 Union Point, Georgia. 



The party from Harvard College Obser- 

 vatory at Greenville, Alabama, will make a 

 determined campaign with powerful appli- 

 ances for the purpose of discovering an 

 intra-Mercurial planet. 



The Allegheny Observatory will send a 

 party to Fort Deposit, Alabama, equipped 

 with extensive photographic and spectro- 

 scopic apparatus as described in a recent 

 issue. 



Expeditions from the U. S. Weather 

 Bureau and the Blue Hill Observatory will 

 conduct appropriate observations at New- 

 berry, S. C, and Washington, Ga., re- 

 spectively. 



W^ith favorable weather conditions we 

 may reasonably expect a considerable in- 

 crease in our knowledge of the problems of 



the solar surroundings, which can be only 

 studied during the brief interval of total 

 solar eclipses. 



THE PRINCIPLES OF SCIOSOPHY. 



" The physical world is the world o! illusions. The 

 non-physical is the world of realities in matter." — 

 Aber. 



"The cell is an illusion: it is merely a word : 

 thus it is with the body, so it is with the earth and 

 with the solar system." — Judge. 



A RED letter day in the annals of the As- 

 tral Camera Club of Alcalde was Saturday, 

 April 1, 1900. On this auspicious occasion 

 was delivered the fifth annual memorial ad- 

 dress before this organization, and in this 

 address, for the first time in the history of 

 human thought, were clearly set forth the 

 principles of the divine cosmic science of 

 Sciosophy. 



But science I should not say, nor yet 

 philosophy. It is not wholly either, but 

 greater than either. Child of both and 

 parent of both, as the heavens surround and 

 include the earth, so does Sciosophy sur- 

 round and include all else within the thought 

 of humanity. Sciosophy, in the words of 

 the venerable sage of Angels, is that " ocean 

 of knowledge which spreads from shore to 

 shore of the evolution of sentient beings, 

 unfathomable in its deepest parts, though 

 shallow enough at its shores." Though 

 Sciosophy may be new, its elements are 

 not. Nothing in the world of mind can be 

 really new. The ' stones of Venice' were 

 stones of course, before Venice rose from the 

 sea. They waited the builder whose magic 

 touch should transform rock into palace, who 

 from the marble quarry should draw forth 

 St. Marks. Thus Sciosophy has waited its 

 hundred centuries for the living touch of 

 Abner Dean. Its basal ideas, the Greeks 

 held, the Hindus and the Arabs, while the 

 restful teachers of all climes have foreseen 

 their wondrous possibilities. Under the 

 wand of the prophet behold as an exhala- 



