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IT had originally been arranged by the Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee of the Royal and Royal Astronomical Societies that a party consisting of Prof. Fowler, Mr. Curtis, and myself, with Major Hills and Father O'Connor as volunteer observers, should proceed to Kiev in Russia to observe the total solar eclipse of August 21. However, difficulties having arisen with the Russian Government, with regard to the admission of Father O'Connor and myself into the empire, on account of the categorical law excluding Jesuits, it was found necessary to divide the expedition, and ultimately a party consisting of Father O'Connor, Mr. G. J. Gibbs, Mr. E. T. Whitelow, and myself, proceeded to Hernösand in Sweden. Leaving Hull on July 28, and Stockholm on August 2, we arrived at our destination on August 3.
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CORTIE, A. The Total Solar Eclipse Expedition to Hernösand, Sweden . Nature 94, 202–204 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/094202a0
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