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11.) mop ee Tasmania, lat. 41° 55’, long. 9" 50™ E. 
American stat The second itbennal ot ie observed, and 
12.) Hobart-town, Tasmania, lat. 43° 0! , long. 9°49" E. Ameri- 
can station. ‘IT’ ose cad good photographs were obtained, but no 
contacts were obse : 
(13.) Christ Ghai New Zealand, lat. 43° 30’, long. 11° 31™ E. 
English station, Observations failed from clouds. 
(14.) Chatham Island, lat. 43° 48’, long. 12° 12™ EK. American 
rane — contacts observed. Eight good photographs taken.. 
(15.) Queenstown, New Zealand, lat. 45° 0’, long. 11" 15™ E. 
American station. First and second eaten contacts observed. 
Fifty-nine good photographs ta 
(16.) Kerguelen Islands, Iat. 49° nal, long. 5° 41" E. English, 
German, and American station. The Germans got both contacts 
at ingress and egress. The English and Americans observed the 
ingress, but not - egress. Twenty-six good photographs were 
taken by the American party. 
(17.) ‘Audilantt Islands, lat. 50° 48, long. 11" 7" E. Germ; 
station. The sun was obscured till ten minutes after the el 
ning of the transit. From that time, the contacts were observed, 
and heliometer observations and photographs sets obtained. 
(18.) Campbell Island, lat. 52° 33/, long. 11" 17" E. Fre 
station. Venus seen batiens ingress only. No a chelate 
2. First results from the Transit. 
M. Puiseux has given the first French results for the sun’s par- 
allax, using the observations of Pekin and St. Paul, all made with 
object elasses of 216 millimeters (8, English inches). The Bietiog 
lax is g 879, 
2. On the Solar structure ; by Farner Seccat.—Father Secchi 
oa saat a very sy reply to ae article by Professor Langley, 
n the comparison of theories of solar structure with observa- 
iii = published in a: Haver “aaiihed of this bye ode a by 
notes upon the communication as it appeared in the gli 
Spectroscopisti of Palermo, and ina lecture chy bg to the T Tiberiae 
Academy, which was published in the Voce della Verita, which 
has been in part reproduced by him in a ete crtide number of 
to an axpoRtion of his own. His yews snow presented, differ 
from those he was understood to hold till lately, and in their 
present form are of such interest that their outlines are here repro- 
ety as nearly in his own terms as is possible in such an abridge- 
ent. 
Spots are due to eruptions of metallic vapors from the interior 
of the sun.—Three phases in the life of a spot may be distin- 
