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THIS eclipse, as our readers have already been made aware, took place on Sunday last, and we may hope, although we shall not know for more than a month, that the weather was favourable. We shall not hear whether the French arrived in time, but we do know that the English observers met the American party, consisting of Prof. Holden, Dr. Hastings, Mr. Rockwell, Mr. Preston Lieut. Brown, and Mr. Upton, the first mentioned astronomer being in charge, at Panama. They expected to arrive at Callao on the 20th March last, and to leave either in the Hartford or the Pensacola within the next few days: That would give them ample time to reach the Caroline Islands, and make the arrangements necessary for the observation. It was the intention of Prof. Holden to take the combined English and American party on to Flint Island if he found that Dr. Jannsen had already established his party on Caroline. This, of course, was a very proper decision, as it would double the chances of favjurable weather. We give the time-table for observation supplied to the English observers, which they were instructed to carry out down to its most minute detail, if all the instruments were landed and set up without damage.
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The Solar Eclipse of 1883 . Nature 28, 31–33 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/028031i0
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