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Ordinary Meeting, November 3rd, 1857. 
VV. Fairbairn, F.R.S., &c., President, in the Chair. 
Mr. Caw made some remarks on the motto of the Corpo- 
ration of Manchester — Concilio et Lahore, suggesting from 
the meaning and etymology of the words that it would be 
more correct to write it Consilio et Lahore. 
Mr. W. L. Dickinson read a paper “ On the Eclipse of 
the Sun, March 15th, 1858.” The various phenomena pre- 
sented by the heavenly bodies have from remote antiquity 
engaged the attention of mankind — amongst the most in- 
teresting of these phenomena are Eclipses of the Sun and 
Moon, as they furnish even to an inattentive observer an 
incontestable proof of the accuracy of those principles by 
which their motions are calculated. The eclipse of the Sun 
in March, 1858, is the largest that has been visible in 
England for many years, and as there will be only one 
eclipse of the Sun visible in this country of greater mag- 
nitude during the present century, viz., that of August 19, 
1887, it appears a fitting subject to bring before the notice 
of the members of the Literary and Philosophical Society. 
The annular eclipse of the Sun, March 14-15, 1858, com- 
mences 14d. 21 h. 31m. 38s. Greenwich mean time, a little to 
the south of the mouth of the river Amazon, in South 
America; the penumbra of the Moon first touches the earth 
at the rising of the Sun in lat. S. 4° 26', long. W. 50° 48' — 
the penumbra wall rapidly spread over the surface of the 
earth after the first contact, and the central eclipse will 
begin 14d. 22h. 42m. 8s., lat. N. 11° 19', long. W. 67° 50', 
Oear Puerto Cabello, in the Caribbean Sea — the central 
eclipse moving first in an easterly, and afterwards in a north- 
easterly direction, crosses the North Atlantic Ocean, where 
at I5d. Oh. 44m. 8s. in lat. N. 45° 44', long. W. 8° 45', the 
Sun will be centrally eclipsed at noon — the augmentation of 
Pkoceedixgs No. 3. 
