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THE eclipse has come and gone, and our little party is on its way home with a few papers and a small box of glass plates—a rather meagre showing for the hard work of our summer months. Although we were so unfortunate as to have uninterrupted cloud throughout the entire duration of the eclipse, our expedition to Japan has not been so dismal a failure all told. Apart from sundry observations of minor importance contributed by volunteer observers at scattering stations for whom I had prepared instructions, Dr. W. J. Holland, who joined the Expedition at my invitation as naturalist, has been actively engaged in botanical and entomological research in fruitful fields, and has a good harvest to report. He has also valuable notes upon his ascent of Nantaisan, Asama-yama, and Nasutake (which latter he appears to have been the first foreigner to ascend); while the separate expedition to the summit of Fuji-san (12,400 feet), which I had the pleasure to carry out under the auspices of the Boyden Fund of the Harvard College Observatory, and on which I had the highly-valued co-operation of Dr. E. Knipping, Meteorologist of the Japanese Weather Service, resulted, among other things, in the determination of its rare fitness as a site for astronomical observation—of which more elsewhere.
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TODD, D. The Total Eclipse of Last August in Japan . Nature 36, 609–612 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/036609a0
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