Report of the Eclipse Expedition to Caroline Island, May 1883. (1884) / Chapter Skim
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Prefatory Note by Prof C A Young, Chairman of the Eclipse Committee of the National Academy of Sciences
Prefatory Note by Prof C A Young, Chairman of the Eclipse Committee of the National Academy of Sciences
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Y . , whde in the Sandwich Islands for the purpose of observing the transit of Mercury, learned that there are two small islands lying almost exactly on the central line of the eclipse, and he determined to endeavor to have an eclipse expe dition organized from the United States.
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W . U P T O N , of the Signal Serv ice, United States Army, for the zeal and intelligence with which each accomplished the work assigned him ; also to the institutions with which they were severally connected for granting to these observers prolonged leave of absence, and, except in the case of Mr.
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U P T O N are extremely valuable, and the same is true of nearly all the others, throwing new light, as they do, not only upon the strictly astronomical problems of the eclipse, but upon the meteorology and natural history of a comparatively unknown region. P B I N C E T O N , December, 1883, ,, ^ i
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S H O L D E N : D E A R S I R : The Committee of the National Academy of Sciences on the Solar Eclipse of May 6 , 1 8 8 3 , has selected you as the Chief and Scientific Director of the party organized under its direction for observations of the various phenomena on that occasion; to prescribe and arrange the work of each member, except so far as it may have been laid down by the committee in special instructions to any one, or may have been assigned to the representative of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.
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