| Description | Present: Dr Hooker C B PResident in the Chair; Mr De La Rue; Professor Huxley; Mr Lockyer; Mr Lassell; Mr Spottiswoode; Professor Stokes; Professor Williamson
Minutes of last meeting read and confirmed
The reasons why he had not sent the telegram to the Governor of the Straits Settlements were explained by the President.
Results of a conversation with the Consul for Siam relative as to probable weather in the peninsula were reported by Professor Stokes
Mr Beasley undertook to work with Mr Lockyer at the preliminary experiments in photographing the spectrum
A reply to Lord Salisbury's telegram indicating no arrangements had yet been made in India for observing the eclipse was reported by Mr Lockyer.
Resolved;
A letter to be written to the Secretary of State for India - contents listed
Mr Lockyer reported he had telegraphed to Herr Vogel as the Committeehad resolved.
Resolved;
1. Mr De La Rue to communicate with Mr Reynolds regarding his accompanying the expedition as a paid photgrpher
2. Mr Shuster as a volunteer and Mr Meldola as a paid assistant be appointed members of the Ecipse Expedition
3. That any equatorially mounted telscopes and other apparatus that may be useful for the observations be requested from the Royal Astronomical Society as a loan for the Eclipse Expedition to Siam and the Nicobar Islands.
4. The Secretary be empowered to write to the Peninsular and Oriental Company and inform them that six places will be required according to the terms mentioned to Mr Lockyer, two to Singapore, and four to Bombay in the first half of February. |