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THE first Indian mail dispatched after the total eclipse of January 22 has now arrived, and it brings a number of details of the work done and results obtained during the two minutes of totality. It is therefore now possible to supplement the information derived from cablegrams already published in NATURE (January 27, p. 294) with extracts from the reports of the various eclipse parties. The Government of India appears to have rendered assistance to all the observers, and it has earned the gratitude of men of science for the active interest shown in the whole of the astronomical operations. Rarely, if ever, has the work of observers been given greater facilities; and the credit for the success of the recent eclipse investigations is due, to a large extent, to the help of the Indian Government, as well as to the perfect weather which prevailed.
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The Total Eclipse of the Sun. Nature 57, 365–367 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/057365f0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/057365f0