New-York tribune., 1896-09-30
Flint'S Fine Furniture.
Have you seen the East Indian
Nook on the seventh floor
Druggists who sell wOodbury's rae'a. oo.p
use it in their homes. They know sooo sosp'
Why not do as they do!
THE AMHERST ECLIPSE ElPbDiilO''
RETURNING FROM JAPAN-AN INTEREsIiN" LEI
TER FROM PROFESSOR TODD

RETURNING FROM JAPAN-AN INTERESilH" h"A'
TER FROM PROFESSOR TODD.
Professor David p. Todd. of Amherst Ooneso'
who was at the head of one OF the Two ]'"e 49,
expedtions which went TO Japan 70 observe 'e
,otal ecnse of the sun on August 9. has written
IN a friend in this city letter when Inc ir'ou'o
is permitted to copy. The party ana its appal a.us
were conveyed on the yacht Coronet, through .i'e
generosity of Arthur Curtis James. OF this .i's.
Professor Todd writes from Yokohama, under date
of September !. as follows
our expedition has returned here from the eclipss
station AZ Fsashi on the Island OF lezo, ana Is
sailing in the Coronet for San Francisco to-day;
We expect TO raGn aG Una, ha pUo not touch at Honolulu
unless driven far south OF our co,tpyysto ytt
tude From the Pacific coast we go eastwardd and
oyer the Southern Pacific to New-orleans' ana
You will have heard before now that totaity was was
cloudy 9 a., Rs M
Of japanese party at EsaShi with myse naer aer
the the Astronomer r Royal at Akkeshi on the south
coast of Iiokkaido. got anything OF scieh'Nic I'LL
NJ Deslandres had. think. the finest and most most
complete scientific outfit ever brought 10 peaa ear s upo'
Captain Boutet commanding was in waiting upon upon
the expedition at Esashi about nrty It'll, les be
iokkaido Several officers of the French Navy
were in charge of the instruments for photometry
and spectroscopy. and with NJ. Deslandress three
assistants NJ Moshau ana the brothers n, me,as'
many OF them photographic the results must have w
been extremely interesting. Professor Teraos pest
newly furnished by Brashear FOR this eclipse, aho
it was much the finest instrument in the field
Our own preparations were almost entirely photo-
graphic. the main station being EQUIPPED WIN =
great polar axis. supporting twenty instruments.
all pointing the sun and maintained there by
the new glycerine clock us Performance wss
SanE Wa. to MAKE s's about dufns
ihe two and a half minutes Of total eclipse. The
largest Instruments were the lonch Draper RET
Hector and lO-nch Clark doublet. lent by Professor
Pickering of Harvard. supplemented by two spec
he
Clark objective from Amherst, together with polar.
great variety OF fine lenses furnished by the
Bausch & I.om and Gundlach Optical eompsniess'
RrasSear siVg of Allegheny: Edgecombe, OF Mystic
Conn. and stendicke. Of New-York. also contrib
uted 10 the optical outfit. which was certainly an
unusual one. Its imperative condition during total
ity is the more be regretted because the instru-
n,ents of the French expedition and my own. being
arranged along very different lines OF research.
supplemented each other most perfectly Both our
automatic movements. controlled electrlcaIiy, "eie
a complete and gratifying success. ,s,
The English expedition was conveyed to Akkesh
by A British cruiser. and returned TO lokonams
by the We dncd with the Astronomy ,sst hvsH
Hills here on their return. They now return.
ing to England by way OF the canadian esIs. rres.p
rSHe ana WIN G. Wsshngton 9sc PrEcetoa
| probably The Lick party. under Schaeberle M.
returned here their two best instruments Wa ,ms
the 6-inch Photographic lens OF forty-ioot iv s,cs
| and Mr. Burckhalter's finch lens OF twenty,.,Ss
| focus arranged with his ingenious scheme is.r. i%s
rotating fan TO vary the time OF exposure IN
eDt pafts Of the corona and so obtain the who!s
| of the corona with correct exposure in every pa"
| on a single plate. , .borid
| have met so equal and sad fate nv' ~, IN isaS
OF them at least Will be represented In lhdA - "a the
general outline through the cloud. and alqngsm, alqngn,,er
! II is spot OF light rather blurred due y ynia,,y
Another plate exposed during the whole ea Sa u r rayr
| gives indications OF N-rays In the solar coO'~