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A SCIENTIFIC expedition was organized early in the present year to observe the total solar eclipse of June 8 from somewhere on the coast of Peru, and the party of three sailed from Yokohama in the beginning of April. I was in charge, and arrived at Lima on May 10 ; after consultations with the Eclipse Committee of the University Mayor of San Marcos, If the decided to have the observing station at Huanchaco, some 14 kilometres north-west of Trujillo. Two other members oparty, together with the instruments, landed at the port of Salaverry on May 20, and immediately proceeded to the station.
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YAMAMOTO, I. Observations of the Solar Eclipse of June 8, 1937. Nature 140, 501 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/140501a0
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