U.S.A. Party For Phoenix
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* I *HE party of American scientists who * are to observe the eclipse of the sun in the Pacific on June 8, will leave San Francisco by the Mariposa on April 27 At Honolulu they will join the cutter Avecet and travel to Enderbury Island, in the Phoenix Group.
The leader of the U.S.A. expedition will be Professor Mitchell, of the Leander McCormick Observatory, Virginia.
If the party with their instruments and stores cannot be landed at Endenbury there being no safe anchorage for ships and very few landing places—they will go to Canton Island, 30 miles distant A New Zealand party under Mr. C. B.
Michie will also observe the eclipse from Enderbury, this island being almost cen trally in its path. H.M.B. Wellington will convey the members of the British party to the Phoenix Islands, and act as a base ship.