The total solar eclipse of december next

ABSTRACT ON Friday last, Mr. Lassell, the president, brought before the Royal Astronomical Society the subject of the total solar eclipse of December next, with a view to eliciting

information as to the steps necessary for observing it. A most interesting discussion ensued, in which the Astronomer Royal, the president, Messrs. De la Rue, Stone, and Huggins, Admiral

Ommaney, Colonel Strange, and Lieutenant Browne, R.A., took part. The line of totality passes near the following places:—Odemira, in Portugal, Cadiz, Estepona (about twenty miles north of

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