Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-05-31
vas installed. There is of course q

was installed. There is of course
dark room, where plates will be de-
veloped and on this particular branch
of the work depends the preservation
of the records of the all-important
event. A branch of this naval observ-
atory party was stationed at Griffin,
Ca, few miles away, in charge of
Professor G. Z. Hill. Hills temporary
observatory is on Georgia's state eN-
pertinent farm, two miles aud half
from the center of Griffin, This is
also high point; both - the east and
west of the country. 1T is open and
afforded splendid view, not only OF
the eclipse itself; but tile shadow, as
1t appeared from the west; could be
distinctly seen for miles. The station
was selected for the express purpose
of making spectroscope analysis of
the various phenomena of light. In
this particular work the Griffin sta
ton differed widely from that ut
GAINESVILLE.
\ third government station was To-
Gated at Pine Hurst; North Carolina.
Prof. \. N. Skinner was in charge and
his work for the most part was of
the same character as that performed
by the Griffin observatory. Skinner
has been on the grounds for two
weeks or more, his chief work being
to superintend the erection of one Of
the largest cameras ever constructed
This station was manned by five mem
hers of the observatory staff and a
humber of distinguished specialists.
among them DIR. Chase, of Yale. The
eclipse station of Chalbot observatory
was located at Sloan, Georgia. \
party was sent out from the home OF
the observatory, Oakland, Cal. by
Prof. James Dalber, the noted astron-
omer of San Francisco, and members
of the Royal Astronomical society of
London, Prof. Charles Burckha!tcr,
in charge of the party, went origin
ally to Union Point, Georgia, where
he hoped to he in the lile of totality
while availing himself of the record
given the little town, that is the
greatest number of cloudless
days at this time of year
of any place in the state. Ar
irving at this point Prof. Rurckhaltcr
found, however, he was several miles
from his desired location and he
moved across to Sloan, wher his i'm
struments were put in position.
The HcrkcS Parity.
The permanent staff of the Ycrlics
observatory, of the University of Chi
cago, located their station at Wades-
boro, North Carolina, with Prof. Ed
ward T.. Barnard in charge. a carload
of instruments and equipment
reached Wadcsboro early in the
month. Barnard placed in position Il
magnificent Photographic telescope
with a siN-inch aperture and focal
length of siNtytwo feet. This tele-
scope is capable of producing pic
lures from sixteen to twenty inches
in diameter. a delicate apparatus for
measuring the heat radiation of the
corona was also put up. Three par
ties from big institutions in the east
and one from the west were situated
at Washington, Georgia.
The Massachusetts Institute OF
Technology sent a delegation in
charge of Prof. a. T.. Burton. Five and
threc-inch equatorial telescopes, a
combined transit and zenith telescope
sidercal and solar chronomctcrs and
other Instruments were mounted.
Prof. w. ii. Pickering directed the
party sent out by Harvard. He was
assisted by j. II. lIdmunds and j. r
Atwcll, of the same institution. Blue
Hill observatory, Boston, sent out A.
L.. Roth and party. Their work was
confined to meteorological obscrva.
tions, study of the record of shadow
bands and the velocity of the wind.