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WE have received full intelligence of the English Eclipse Expedition from Mr. Lockyer, under date Galle, November 29. At that date the expedition had been detailed into various parties for service at different stations in Ceylon and the mainland; the instructions to these several parties are reprinted in another column. Mr. Lockyer, Dr. Thomson, and Captain Maclear were to observe at Ootacamund, Mr. Davis being detached to photograph at Gunote; Messrs. Abbay and Friswell were to go to Manantawaddy, Signor Respighi and Mr. Holliday to Poodacottah; while Captains Tupman and Fyers and Messrs. Moseley and Lewis were to proceed to Trincomalee. The Indian and Cingalese authorities and the officers of the Mirzapore and Glasgozv had exerted themselves to the utmost to assist the expedition, and the Ceylon party acknowledge great obligation to Captain Fyers, the Surveyor-General. In another column will be found an account of the voyage out.
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Notes . Nature 5, 169–171 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/005169a0
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