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transit will be observed at that station, and photography 
employed. I may be permitted to note, in passing, the slow 
approaches made towards the course now actually adopted. 
When I pointed to Peshawur as a station which ought un- 
doubtedly to be occupied, at first for some months nothing 
was said or done ; then a photographic station at Delhi was 
suggested, Peshawur being scouted ; then the locale was 
changed to Peshawur; lastly (and quite recently) it was an- 
nounced that contact observations had been amply provided 
for, so that in the long run, or about March 1873, what I 
had advocated in March 1869 was adopted to the letter. 
Although at Peshawur the whole transit will be visible, this 
station is specially suited for the observation of the retarded 
egress, being for this purpose superior to Alexandria. 
The total cost of the British expeditions, exclusive of the 
Indian station, will be about 15,000L 
Lord Lindsay’s station at Mauritius must be mentioned in 
this connection. The work done there will probably be at 
least as reliable as that done at any other station, and the 
photographic preparations are, on the whole, more complete 
than those adopted anywhere else. 
It may be mentioned, also, that Colonel Campbell will 
proceed to Thebes on a private expedition, working with the 
Egyptian party as a volunteer. 
Eussia is distinguished by the largeness of the number of 
stations she will provide for. She will have no less than twenty- 
six stations, ranging from the Black Sea to the region occupied 
by American astronomers in North China. Eleven of these 
stations (the more easterly section) will be Halleyan, the 
remainder covering a large part of the region whence the 
retarded egress will be favourably observable. 
It has recently been announced that the German astronomers 
will occupy five southern Halleyan stations, one of these being 
the desolate Heard Island. Their original purpose was to 
occupy one station in the North, viz. at Chefoo, in China, one 
in the Auckland Islands, and Macdonald Island, besides a 
photographic station in Persia. They will rely considerably on 
the 66 direct method ” of observation. 
France will occupy five stations, all Halleyan, having declined 
to occupy (as invited by our Astronomer Eoyal) the three 
Delislean stations, Marquesas, Bourbon, and Suez. The selected 
stations are, in the North, China (two) and Japan; in the 
South, Campbell Island and St. Paul’s Island. 
On the whole, it may be said that ample provision has been 
made for the observation of the most important astronomical 
event of the century. Every region whence useful observations 
can be made, will be occupied by observing parties, and use 
