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Rev. S. J. Peny. On the 



[May 5, 



May 5,^1887. 



Professor G. G. STOKES, D.C.L., President, in the Chair. 



The Presents received were laid on the table, and thanks ordered 

 for them. 



In pursuance of the Statutes the names of the Candidates recom- 

 mended for election into the Society were read from the Chair as 

 follows : — 



Buchanan, John Young, M.A. 

 Cash, John Theodore, M,D. 

 Douglass, Sir James Nicholas, 



M.LC.E. 

 Ewing, Prof. James Alfred, B.Sc. 

 Forbes, Prof. George, M.A. 

 Gowers, William Richard, M.D. 

 Kennedy, Prof. Alexander B. W., 



M.LC.E. 



King, George, M.B. 



Kirk, Sir John, M.D. 



Lodge, Prof. Oliver Joseph, D.Sc. 



Milne, Prof. John, F.G.S. 



Pickard- Cambridge, Rev. Octa- 



vius, M.A. 

 Snelus, George James, F.C.S. 

 Walsingham, Thomas, Lord. 

 Whitaker, William, B.A. 



The following Papers were read : — 



I. " Report of the Observations of the Total Solar Eclipse of 

 August 29, 1886, made at Carriacou." By the Rev. S. J. 

 Perry, S.J., F.R.S. Received April 5, 1887. 



(Abstract.) 



Carriacou is a small island situated about twenty miles to the north 

 of the island of Grenada, the chief of the Windward group, and 

 furnished an excellent site for the observation of the last solar eclipse. 

 Most of the observers sent by the Eclipse Committee of the Royal 

 Society to the West Indies in August of last year remained at 

 Grenada, or on the small islands in its immediate vicinity, whilst 

 Mr. Maunder and myself occupied the more distant northern station, 

 where the totality was slightly diminished in duration. 



The work proposed for Mr. Maunder was to secure a series of 

 photographs of the corona, with exposures of 40s. and under, and also 

 to obtain two photographs of the spectrum of the corona with the 

 longest exposures possible. The coronal pictures were successful, and 

 they are at present in the hands of Mr. Wesley, Assistant Secretary of 



