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SIR NORMAN LOCRYER AND OTHERS ON THE 
the eclipse, and it was found that the results were on the whole very satisfactory. No 
results, however, were obtained with the integrating spectroscope, and the kinema- 
tograph films taken l)y Lord Graham were too badly fogged to serve any useful 
purpose. 
The dismantling of the instruments was commenced very soon after the eclipse, 
and the packing, together with tlie development and copying of the negatives, 
kept the party fully occupied until the morning of January 25, when the expedition 
left Viziadrug. 
Half of the negatives and glass coj^ies of the remainder were conveyed to England 
in charge of Mr. Fowler, while the remaining half of negatives and 23ositives were 
sent home vid Bombay. 
Local Conditions of Eclipse. 
In response to my request, the Superintendent of the ‘Nautical Almanac’ office 
kindly supplied me with the following local particulars of the eclipse for the station 
wliich I proposed to occupy :— 
Assuming the position of Viziadrug to 
contact will be 
be 16° 32' I 
d. 
h. 
m. s. 
1898. January 21 
23 
12 20 
22 
U 
46 9 4 
0 
48 14 J 
22 
o 
14 33 
Duration 125 secs. 
These are local mean times, and to reduce to G.M.T., 4h. 53m. 28s. must be sub¬ 
tracted. 
The position angle of the point of 2nd contact is 5D, and that of 3rd contact 241°, 
reckoned from the north point towards the east in each case. 
On reaching India, however, it was ascertained that, according to the most recent 
Admiralty chart, the position of the selected station was 1G° 33' 26" N., and 
73° 18' 58" E. This being nearer to the central line than the position adopted by 
Dr. Downing, the duration of totality was estimated at 127 seconds, and the 
})rogramme of work arranged accoixlingly. The altitude of the sun at mid-eclipse 
was calculated to be very nearly 53°, and the azimuth nearly 14°. 
The ajiparent semi-diameters of the sun and moon at the time of eclipse were 
respectively 16' 16"‘4 and IG' 35"'5, while the relative motion was approximately 
0"‘36 per second. 
The angle between the vertex and the north point at the time of mid-eclipse was 
calculated to be 14° 9', the north point of the limb lying towards the west. The 
position angle of the sun’s axis being 8° west of north, the axis would therefore be 
inclined 22° 9' from the vertical towards the west. The heliographic latitude of the 
