The important result was that the corona gave a positive indication of heat as compared with the moon. This heat, though certain, was, however, too slight to be sub-divided by the dispersion of the prism with the means at hand. The negatives taken to depict the outer corona show from three to four solar diameters extension for the longest streamers. The equatorial ‘wings,’ as they recede from the sun, are finally lost in an illuminated sky, without any indication of having actually come to an end. No attempt to carefully examine the plates taken for intra-mercurial planets has yet been possible. It is, however, as has been remarked, doubtful if the very faintest objects will be found, in consideration of the considerable sky illumination during totality. However, Pleione in the Pleiades (a star of the 6.3 magnitude), is plainly seen on one of the plates, and some smaller ones are discernible. On the whole, the expedition may be considered as promising to be very satisfactory in its results, and that it was so is largely owing not only to the efficient care of Mr. Abbot, but to the many gentlemen who have assisted me with the loan of valuable apparatus, with counsel, with voluntary service and with painstaking observation, to one and all of whom I desire to express my obligations. MALARIA AND THE MALARIAL PARASITE.[E] BY PATRICK MANSON, M. D., LL. D., LECTURER ON TROPICAL DISEASES AT ST. GEORGE’S HOSPITAL AND CHARING-CROSS HOSPITAL MEDICAL SCHOOLS AND AT THE LONDON SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE. [E] Abstract of a lecture delivered at the Medical Graduates’ College and Polyclinic, and printed in the _Lancet_ of May 19. This lecture is devoted to a description of the parasite and of its life cycles. The existence of a parasite in malarial disease has been suspected for a long time, but only very recently have we had absolute assurance that such a parasite exists. Some time in the thirties Meckel described in the human blood certain black particles which he found in leucocytes and in certain pale, leucocyte-like bodies the nature of which he did not know. When he saw these bodies he certainly saw the malarial parasite. His observations were repeated and extended in the forties and the fifties by Frerichs and Virchow, and they, too, undoubtedly saw the malarial parasite. But it is one thing to see and quite another to recognize; discovery is recognition.