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LAST Thursday a combined meeting of the Royal Society and Royal Astronomical Society took place at Burlington House, when the observers who went away for the recent eclipse communicated the results of their observations. As the reports have not yet been published, we are unable to give an account of them. We have received from Prof. Langley a preliminary account, which we hope to print next week, of the expedition which went under his direction to Wadesboro, U.S.A., to observe the eclipse. The photographs he has obtained surpass any that have ever been taken at an eclipse, and speak volumes for the employment of instruments of great focal-length,

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Notes . Nature 62, 228–233 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/062228a0

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