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tributed among four stations — one party will be at Syracuse, 
another at Augusta, a third (the head-quarters) at Catania, and 
a fourth, a strong party headed by Professor Roscoe, at the 
summit of Etna. Although this arrangement is associated in 
the telegram with the accident which happened to the Psyche 
(the news of which sent a thrill of alarm and anxiety through 
the hearts of all who take interest in the cause of science), I 
am disposed to hope that some parts of the arrangement may 
be referred to other considerations. The fact that a portion of 
the expedition is able to travel so far south as Syracuse, actually 
crossing the line of central eclipse, seems to imply that the ex- 
pedition has not been seriously hampered by the accident. I 
hope much from the party at Etna. I had dwelt earnestly on 
the advisability of sending a party there (see the December 
number of “Fraser’s Magazine ”), and I think it cannot be 
doubted that, though the totality will last there but a short 
time, more instructive observations of the corona will be pos- 
sible at so considerable an elevation than any which have yet 
been made. 
