A GENERAL statement of the successes of the Western Eclipse Expeditions on January 1 has already appeared in NATURE. More photographs of the corona were taken than ever before—many of them indifferent and worthless, but an unusually large number of great excellence. The best that I have so far seen were taken with 5-inch telescopes, by Mr. W. H. Pickering at Willow, and by Captain R. S. Floyd at Lakeport, both in California. The latter's lens was newly made by Clark, on the Stokes-Pickering plan, convertible from optical to photographic use by reversing the crown lens.