NEXT YEAR'S SOLAR ECLIPSE.
Professor Moors, assistant-mathematical orofessor at Sydney University, stated at a recent meeting of the New South Wales branch of the British Astronomical Association' that tiic Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science was makin" urransieiiients for tho dispatch of a narlv of professional and amateur scientists from Sydney in April next year to observe the total eclipse of -ho sun from <=omo point yet (o be selected :u tno South Sea Islands. It was proposed to clm'tor a steamer in Sydney totako tho <Hont;'«ts- and their instruments and a limited number of excursionists, whose means and time would permit them to make the trip, on a month's visit to tho Islands. The exact objective of tho ciocdition had not yet been determined, as such conditions as climate, the disposition of natives, and so on had to bo considered ; but- full details of the association's sehouio would 'be made public within the next few weeks. The protocol' remarked that ho was ouo of theso who had made the 1200 miles' journey to witness the Tasmanian eclipse, and had actually seen less than was to bo seen in Sydney.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 836, 7 June 1910, Page 4
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191NEXT YEAR'S SOLAR ECLIPSE. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 836, 7 June 1910, Page 4
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