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ELECTRIC WAVES AND THE COMING TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE.—It is hoped that the forthcoming total solar eclipse of August 21 will be fully utilised to study the effect of the propagation of electric waves, as this event affords an exceptional and important opportunity of adding to the existing knowledge of the propaga tion of electric waves in sunlight and in darkness and across the boundaries of illuminated and unilluminated regions. The total eclipse track passes across Greenland, Norway, Sweden, Russia, and Persia to the mouths of the Indus; in Russia the duration of totality will be a little more than two minutes. A circular, distributed by the British Association committee for radio-telegraphic investigation sets forth details of this special kind of investigation and this committee would be greatly aided in the organisation of this piece of research if those possessing the necessary facilities and willing to make observations during the eclipse would.communicate with the honorary secretary, Dr. W. Eccles, University College, London, W.C., at the earliest possible date. The committee proposes to prepare and circulate special forms for the collection of statistics of signals and strays, especially within the hemisphere likely to be affected by the eclipse. It will endeavour to make provision for the transmission of special signals at times to be indicated on the forms. It will also offer for the consideration of the authorities controlling stations near the central line a simple programme of work. The discussion of the observations, and the comparison with meteorological data will be carried out by the committee, and digests of the statistics, together with the conclusions drawn from the analysis, I will be published in due course.
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Our Astronomical Column . Nature 93, 68–69 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/093068a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/093068a0