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ON Tuesday a visit was paid to the Challenger at Sheerness by several Fellows of the Royal Society, foreign men of Science, who are in London in connection with the Loan Collection Conferences, and representatives of the Science and Art Department. Among those who made up the party were Lord Clarence Paget, Sir Henry Cole, Mr. Norman Macleod, Majors Donnelly and Festing, Mr. E. J. Reed, M.P., Professors Allman and Crum-Brown, Mr. Norman Lockyer, Professor Eccher, Baron von Wrangell, Dr. Biedermann, and others. Luncheon was served in the Ward-room but as there was not sufficient accommodation for all the visitors many left by special train for Chatham, where luncheon had been provided in the Engineers' Mess-room. Invitations to visit the Challenger have been sent by the Admiralty to all the English and foreign members the Kensington Loan Apparatus Committee, many of whom have accepted them. The Challenger will be open to inspection to-morrow. The ship lies at present in the very spot she left when she set out on her cruise three and a half years ago, and to-day she is to be swung for the adjustment of her compasses and the taking of magnetic observations. It is thought that ten or twelve days will elapse before all the stores can be taken out to enable her to pay off.
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Notes . Nature 14, 119–121 (1876). https://doi.org/10.1038/014119b0
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