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will be made of every available method.* Let us hope that 
the success of the expeditions will remove any unpleasant 
recollections of former controversies. In the words of a leading 
weekly journal, 44 If weather and other conditions only favour 
the observers at the various stations, we believe that results 
will be obtained so satisfactory as to leave no thought or 
inclination in any quarter for a return to less pleasing con- 
siderations/’ 
* I should have been glad, however, to hear that photographic observa- 
tions were to be made at Cape Town, Port Natal, and in South Madagascar, 
where, though the whole transit will be visible, the planet will be projected 
farther from the sun’s centre during the middle of the transit than as seen 
from any other accessible station. 
