| Show the total eclipse one of the corps of astronomers attached to the harvard college observatory left for california last week with telescopes and other apparatus to be used in observing the total solar eclipse which is due on now years day later in the month professor W H Picken ng A lawrence botch samuel bailey E S kiu and koberne slack the remaining members of the expedition will join him the party will occupy a position near the town or willow in the sacramento valley the observing station having an altitude of 2000 feet above the sea level and being about two hundred kilps from san francisco the telescopes taken are of thirteen inches and eighteen is diame deraad they wll remain for a tinaa on wilsons Wil sons peak in southern california after which they will be taken to peru and placed an fn the permanent observatory there to bo established by harvard university to co operate in the southern hemisphere with the observatory in cambridge the work of making a complete survey of the southern heavens upon the cambridge plan has been for a year or more in contemplation and is to be prosecuted with all the appliances commanded by modem science |
