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tories of Palermo and Pome were enabled to carry on a daily series 
of combined observations, principally on the sun. The results of 
these observations and of the other labours of this Society are pub- 
lished periodically at Palermo, and have already reached the seventh 
volume. Secchi photographed the eclipse of 1860 in Spain, and 
observed that of 1870 in Sicily. 
In 1862 Secchi commenced a monthly series in 4to, entitled the 
Bulletino Meteor ologico, consisting of daily observations, meteoro- 
logic and magnetic, made both at the college and at various places in 
the neighbourhood of Rome, as well as of observations made on the 
sun’s spots. This collection, now edited by Father Ferrari, has 
reached its sixteenth volume. 
The grand Exposition Universelle of 1867 procured a favourable 
opportunity of exhibiting his registering meteorograph in Paris, for 
which he obtained the great French prize of 100,000 francs (?) and 
the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, which the Emperor 
Napoleon conferred on him with his own hand. He took the 
opportunity whilst in Paris of delivering some lectures, a portion of 
which have been published in French, in 2 vols. 4to, under the title 
of Le Soleil. 
"When the Collegio Romano passed from the Papal to the Italian 
Government, the Chair of Astronomy in the new Roman University 
was offered to Secchi and accepted, but the chief of his order would 
not allow him to retain it. His connection with the Observatory 
did not, however, cease. 
Secchi’s reputation was undoubtedly very great and wide-spread. 
He was member of a very large number of scientific societies. 
Amongst the rest, the Royal Society of London elected him one of 
their foreign members in 1856, and our Society followed their 
example in 1865. His great merit consisted in industry and 
activity — his error, in want of definiteness of aim, in over-produc- 
tion. The Royal Society’s Catalogue of Scientific Papers contains 
a list, carried down to 1863 only, of no less than 230 contributions 
to scientific journals. At the time of his death, which took place 
on the 26th of February last, this list must have been greatly 
extended. Their value is probably not in proportion to their 
extent ; but it cannot be doubted that they contain much that will 
help on the future progress of science. 
