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authority of joint resolutions of Congress passed at the late session ; 
and consisted of the following gentlemen, viz: Prof. Stephen Alexander, 
of the College of New Jersey, Prest. F. A. P. Barnard, of the Univer- 
sity of Mississippi, Lieut. E. D. Ashe, R. N., director of the Quebec 
Observatory, Prof. C.S. Venable, of the College of §. Carolina, and 
Prof. A. W. Smith, of the U. 8. Naval Academy at Annapolis. With 
these were associated the Commander of the Coast Survey steamer Bibb, 
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C. Duchochois, of and J.P. Thompson, of the Coast 
Survey service, accompanied the corps for the purpose of taking photo- 
graphic impressions of the eclipse; and Mr. W. A. Henry, of Washing- 
ton City, attended as assistant to the chief of the corps. 
n addition to the purely astronomical objects of the expedition, ad- 
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servations were kept up hourly from the time of sailing until the morn- 
ing of the day on which the Bibb entered the harbor of Newport. On 
the day of the eclipse the intervals were reduced to a half hour. Fre- 
saad record was made of the surface and deep sea temperature of the 
water, : 
The magnetic observations were placed under the charge of Messts. 
Edward Goodfellow and Samuel Walker, of the Coast Survey. The me- 
teorological, under that of Prof. Venable, of the astronomical corps, a 
Lieber 
sisted by Oscar M. Lieber, Esq., of South Carolina. 
The track of the central eclipse left the eastern coast of Labrador 
lat. 59° 514/.. On the evening of the 13th July, the expedition had 
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seven or eight fathoms. On every hand were seen rocky islets, 
nearly submerged, or reefs and breakers. 
: rough such a sea, for five or six hours, from six o'clock till nearly 
12 at night, the Bibb was engaged in cautiously seeking out for her- 
self a harbor of refuge ; and just about at the moment when the suf 
was ng his lower culmination, though a bright twilight still filled 
the atmosphere, she dropped her anchor in the inlet which divides Av- 
