Prof. Pickering's Eclipse Expedition

Professor William H. Pickering, of the Astronomical Observatory, will make an expedition to northern Africa next summer, to observe the eclipse of the sun on August 30. He will take with him one of the small telescopes of the Observatory, which he will set up on an eminence in Phillippeville, Algeria. Professor Pickering will devote particular attention to the many indentations on the sun's edge and he will write a report of all his observations.

The lenses and photographic apparatus of the Astronomical Observatory have been loaned to the Lick Observatory, which will send out three expeditions to observe the eclipse, one to Labrador, one to Spain, and one to Egypt.