72 Miscellaneous Intelligence, 



9' 21"'0 North, Ion. O'' 21"' 13^-43 West, or 82° 21' 20"-4 W. of 

 Greenwich. The latest edition of the Admirality list of lights in 

 the West Indies, gives 82° 22' 12" for the longitude, nearly'a mile 



The second appendix has been noticed in this Journal, (II, vol 

 xlix, p. 134). 



We cannot too highly commend in the management of the Naval 

 Observatory, this practice of publishing memoirs prepared by the 

 Assistant Professors under the name of the authors. The personal 

 interest in the careful elaboration of the subjects which is thus 

 secured is of great value to science. This practice has been most 

 injuriously and unjustly departed from in more than one observa- 

 tory in times past. 



lY. Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence. 



\. Solar Eclipse of Dec. 22, 1870.— Congress having appro- 

 priated $29,000 to enable the Superintendent "of the Coast Survey 

 to observe the total eclipse of the sun, which will be visible on the 

 shores of the Mediterranean on the 22nd of Dec. next, Professor 

 Peirce has organized two parties, one which, under his own leaa. 

 will occupy several points in Sicily, while the other, under the 

 direction of Prof. Joseph Winlock, director of the Harvard ob- 

 servatory, will occupy points near the line of totality in Spain. 



Prof. Peirce is accompanied by Messrs. C. A. Schott, J. H. Lane 

 and Chas. S. Peirce of the Coast Survey, ^Major H. L. Abbott and 

 Capt. O. H. Ernst of the U. S. Engineers, Prof J. C. Watson of 

 the University of Michigan, Dr. C. H. F. Peters of Hamilton Col- 

 lege Prof W. Eimbeck of St. Louis, and Messrs. II. G. Fitz and 

 D. C. Chapman of New York, the two latter having been pro- 

 vided with outfit and instructions for photographic observations 

 by Mr. Lewis M. Rutherfurd of New York. 



Prof. Winlock's party consists of G. W. Dean, assistant in the 

 Coast Survey, Professors C. A. Young of Dartmouth College, t. 

 P. Pickering of the Mass. Inst, of Technology, S. P. Langley of 

 the Western University of Penn. at Alleghany, Islv. Alvan C. 

 ^[m n°/,9^^^'^f%e, and Mr. O. H Willard, photographer ot 

 Philadelphia, together with four aids. 



On the part of the U. S. Naval Observatory four observers lum 

 also been sent out, viz: Professors S. Newcomb, A. Hall, ^^ 

 Harkness and J. R. Eastman. J. e- H- 



Four parties have left England under the auspices of the British 

 Government, one to Cadiz in charge of Rev. S. J. Perry ; one to 

 Gibraltar under Captain Noble; a third to Oran (Algiers) under 3ir; 

 Huggms ; and a fourth to Sicily, under Mr. Lockyer. " i^^^'"'^, 

 ot Nov 24 states that "Professors Young, Pickering, NewconH'. 

 Peters, Watson, Harkness, and others are at present in London, 

 and are daily affording most valuable information to the Orga"i;- 

 ing Committee and the various observers " While the British 

 Government were hesitating with regard to sending expeditions tor 

 observations Prof. Peirce extende<r an invitation to the EngU* 

 > join his parties. 



