The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1900-06-02

dark room, where platesswill y de-
yel0ped AndaDnStm particular branch
OF the work depends the preservation
Of the records OF the an-important
event. "a branch Of this naval spbsery-S
atory partys8Was stationed At Griffin,
Ga, d few miles way,inscharge&Of
Professor G. 3. Hill. Hills temporary
observatory is ION Georgia'ss state exc
pertinent farm, two miles and q half
from the center Of Griffin. This is
also d high point, both to the east and;
west of the country. It is open md
afforded. splendid view. not onlyfofi
the eclipse itself, but the shadow, as
it appeared from the west, could be
distinctly seen for miles. The station
was selected for the express purpose
of making q spectroscope analysis Of
this particular work the Griffin sta
ton differed widely from tnat3 at
Barnesville.
Gated at Pine Hurst. North Carolina.
his work for the most part was OF
by the Griffin observatory. Skinner
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weeks or more, his chief work being
to superintend the erection ef one OF
the largest camera ever constructed.
This station was manned by five mem
hers OF the observatory staff and. a
number of distinguished specialists,
among them DR.. Chase, of Yale. The
eclipse station OF Chalbot observatory
was located at Sloan, Georgia. A
party was sent out from the home Of
the observatory, Oakland, Eal., by
Prof. James Dafber, the noted astron-
omer. of san FRANCISCO, and members
of the Royal Astronomical society of
London. Prof. Charles Burckhalter,
in charge of the party, went origin
ally to Union Point, Georgia, where
he hoped to be in the line Of totality
while availing himself OF the record
given the little town, that is the
greatest number of cloudless
days ut this time of year
of any place in the state. Ar
irving at this point Prof. Burckhnlter
found, however, he was several miles
from his desired location and he
moved across to Sloan, wher his in.
istruments were put in position.
The Yerkes Party.
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observatory, of the University of Chi.
5cago, located their station ut Wades-
.boro, North Carolina, with Prof. Ed.
ward L. Barnard in charge. A carload
of instruments and equipment
reached Wadesboro early in the
month. Barnard placed in position a
magnificent Photographic telescope
with a six-inch aperture and a focal
length Of sixty-two feet. This tele-
scope is capable of producing pie
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 We're situated
ut Washington, Georgia.
The Massachusetts Institute of
Technology sent delegation in
charge of Prof. A. =. Burton. Five and
three-inch equatorial telescopes, a
combined transit and zenith telescope
sidereal and solar c~hrononeters and
other instruments were mounted.
Prof. w. Fl. Pickering directed the
party sent out by Harvard. He was
assisted by j.. II. Edmunds and j. r.
Atwcl1, of the same institution. Blue
Hill observatory, Boston, sent out a.
i. Roth and party. Their work was
confined to meteorological observa-
tions, study of the record of shadow
bands and the velocity of the wind.