810 Scientific Intelligence. 
1876, March 25th, a central eclipse near noon, in part of Van" 
couver’s Island and of British Columbia, probably total there a 
very few seconds, but generally annular, where the altitude of the 
moon will be less, 
1878, July 29th, the great eclipse of June 16th, 1806, will 
return for the fourth time, and the shadow of the moon will pass 
over British Columbia, Montana, Colorado, Texas, Cuba, the city 
of Havana, ete. At Denver, Colorado, at about 34 p.m, the 
eclipse will be total nearly three minutes, so that for careful ob- 
servations on this eclipse Denver appears to be very favorably 
situated. ; 
1885, March 16th, the eclipse of Feb. 12th, 1831, will return 
the third time, and be annular in the northern part of California 
and in Montana. 
1900, May 28th, a total eclipse of the sun in the southern States, 
and the shadow of the moon, coming from the southwest, wi 
reach the ocean in North Carolina, a little south of Norfolk, but 
the duration of totality will not exceed a minute at any place in 
the United States, where the eclipse is central. 
Boston, February, 1872. 
2. Solar eclipse of Dec. 12. Observations made at Bekul by 
J. P. Macrear, dated S. S. Indus, Jan. 6, 1872.—* * * The 
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ment of the eclipse the slit of the 6-prism was placed tangential 
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