. Science-gossip . N. Wanted, the loan of, or to purchase, vol. 5 CambridgeNatural History. Offered, botanical and insect slides orcash.—Walter White, Litcham, Swafiham. Books.—Good modern books on science, natural historyand travel: exchange or sell cheap. Lists sent—J. H. Noble,5, Bond Place, Leeds. SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 319 THE TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE. By Frank C. Dennett. ?nPHE eclipse of August 9th, 1896, had beenlooked forward to by British astronomersas visible nigh to hand, and therefore as onewhich gave a considerable amount of possibilityfor observation, seeing that the line of totalitycrossed
. Science-gossip . N. Wanted, the loan of, or to purchase, vol. 5 CambridgeNatural History. Offered, botanical and insect slides orcash.—Walter White, Litcham, Swafiham. Books.—Good modern books on science, natural historyand travel: exchange or sell cheap. Lists sent—J. H. Noble,5, Bond Place, Leeds. SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 319 THE TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE. By Frank C. Dennett. ?nPHE eclipse of August 9th, 1896, had beenlooked forward to by British astronomersas visible nigh to hand, and therefore as onewhich gave a considerable amount of possibilityfor observation, seeing that the line of totalitycrossed over such a holiday-resort as the North ofNorway. As a whole, the British party may be Hither also had gone another, a Russian, party,sent by the Imperial Academy of Sciences, com-posed of M. Nicolas O. A. Backlund (Director ofthe Observatory of Poulkova), accompanied byMM, S. Kostinsky and A. Hansky, also PrinceGalitzine, and, as zoologist, M. Jacobson. Mostinteresting reports of this expedition, together. Fig. I.—Diagram of Total Eclipse ok Sun, August qth, iSgS. said to have taken up their quarters at Vadso, onthe banks of the Varanger Fiord, and the story oftheir disappointment is well known. There was alittle more success at BodiJ, but the only real goodwork by our countrymen was that by Messrs. Stone (of the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford)and Shackleton (Assistant to Professor NormanLockyer), who had been taken by Sir G. Baden-Powell in his yacht, the Otaria, to the desolateshores of Nova Zembla. May, 1897.—No. 36, Vol. III. with photographs and a resultant drawing, aregiven in the Bulletin de IAcademie Imperialedes Sciences de St. Petersbourg, for January, andfrom which the substance of this paper has beendrawn, as also the accompanying plates. The expedition embarked from Archangel onJuly 22nd, on board the marine transport Samocde,and, thanks to its captain, M. Lilie, and his officers,had a most enjoyable voyage to Nova Zembla,arriving on July 35th. Maly
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