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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE 



No. 



Observer. 



Place of Obser- 

 vation. 



] 



Latitude. 



Longitude W. ' 

 of Greenwich. . 



Phase. 



Mean Time of Ob- 

 vation. 













h. m. s. 





d. h. m. s. 



15 



Dr Patterson 



Philadelphia 



39 



56'57"-0 



5 38-88 



B 



14 19 3 45-8 



16 













E 



21 32 38-3 



17 



S. Sellers 



(( 



39 



57' 5"-5 



5 39-05 



B 



19 3 41-0 



18 













E 



21 32 34-0 



19 



A. Ferguson 



West Hills 



40 



48'49"'2 



4 53 44-80 



B 



19 12 48-5 



20 













E 



21 43 40-0 



21 



A. Holcomb 



Southwick 



42 



0'41"'0 



4 51 15-00 



B 



19 17 52-2 



22 













E 



21 49 20-1 



23 



R. T. Paine 



Providence 



41 



49'39"-3 



4 45 39-68 



B 



19 23 3-2 



24 













E 



21 57 9 



25 



W. C. Bond 



Dorchester 



42 



19'15"-0 



4 44 17-29 



B 



19 25 34-5 



26 













E 



21 59 56-6 • 



27 



A. Lang. 



St Croix 



17 



44'32"-0 



4 18 44-00 



B 



19 3 57-5 



28 













E 



21 44 2-5 



The correction of the chronometers, at Philadelphia, was determined 

 by a twenty inch Jones's transit instrument, with high and low stars. 

 The corrections of the deviations of the instrument were computed, 

 and applied. Eastern and western altitudes of the sun were measured 

 by two observers, with different sextants. 



This eclipse was more extensively observed in this country than 

 any of the preceding eclipses. Its principal phases had been an- 

 nounced for a great number of places, by a member of this committee, 

 Robert Treat Paine, Esq., in the American Almanac for 1836. Equa- 

 tions for the times of the principal phases, (on the method of Wool- 

 house,) for places near Philadelphia, by another member of the com- 

 mittee, Mr Sears G. Walker, had been published in the April number 

 of the Journal of the Franklin Institute. Preliminary computations 

 and formulas for its principal phases for European observatories had 

 appeared in the Berliner Jahrbuch, and more particularly in the Nau- 

 tical Almanac, by Mr Woolhouse. The central and annular path of 

 this eclipse traversed England and Germany. The weather in the 

 United States was unusually fine. In England and Germany the 

 fairness of the weather was such, that few disappointments were ex- 

 perienced by observers situated in its annular path. It was how- 

 ever rainy in Bohemia and Bavaria. In Prussia, Poland and Austria, 



