Paper, 'Observations made at Vera Cruz [Veracruz, Mexico]' by Joseph Harris Harris describes a partial solar eclipse on 11 March 1727. He writes: 'The latitude of this place I found (by several distant observation made by a quadrant of four feet radius) to be 19° 12' N.' Revised and communicated by Edmond Halley Subject: Astronomy Read to the Royal Society on 15 February 1727 Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Astronomical observations made at Vera Cruz, by Mr. Joseph Harris. Revised and communicated by Edm. Halley, L. L. D. Astron. Reg. & R. S. S' 1728