SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The solar eclipse of June 8, 1918, was viewed at Baker, Oregon, by a 

 party from the Naval Observatory consisting of Astronomer J. C. 

 Hammond, Assistant Astronomer George H. Peters, Assistant C. C. 

 Wiley, and Assistant W. A. Conrad, together with the following invited 

 scientists: Professors S. A. Mitchell and L. G. Hoxton, of the Univer- 

 sity of Virginia, Dr. P. W. Merrill, of the Bureau of Standards, Dr. 

 Mary Murray Hopkins and Miss Harriet Bigelow, of Smith Col- 

 lege, Mr. Edward D. Adams amd Mr. Kempton Adams, of New York 

 City. 



Assistant Astronomer H. R. Morgan and Assistant W. M. Hamil- 

 ton, of the Observatory, made observations at Denver, Colorado. 



Special measurements were made by observers from the Weather 

 Bureau during the solar ecHpse of June 8, 1918. At Goldendale, Wash- 

 ington, were installed a Smithsonian pyranometer for measuring the 

 intensity of both the direct solar radiation and the diffuse sky-radiation, 

 and a pyrgeometer for measuring the intensity of the outgoing radiation. 

 A program of meteorological observations, arranged by Professor H. H, 

 Kimball and Mr. S. P. Fergusson, and including atmospheric pressure, 

 temperature of the air, direction of the wind, clouds and shadow-bands, 

 was carried out at about fifty-five stations, nearly all of which were west 

 of the Mississippi and within the belt where the sun was 90 per cent 

 eclipsed. 



The various parties sent out by the Carnegie Department of 

 Terrestrial Magnetism and the United States Coast and Geodetic Sur- 

 vey, have all reported securing successful series of magnetic observa- 

 tions during the time of the total solar eclipse of June 8. Magnetic 

 observations were made by the Coast and Geodetic Survey at Green 

 River, Wyo., Mena, Ark., and Orlando, Fla. In addition data will 

 be obtained from the various magnetic observatories of the Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey. The stations at which magnetic observations were 

 made by the observers of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, 

 were: Goldendale, Wash.; Corono, Colo., at an altitude of 12,000 feet; 

 Moraine Lake, Colo.; Lakin, Kans.; Brewton, Ala.; and Washington, 

 D. C. At Lakin, furthermore, and at Washington, D. C, atmospheric- 

 electric observations were made. Reports on the results obtained 

 will be published in the September issue of the journal Terrestrial Mag- 

 netism and Atmospheric Electricity. Data will likewise be furnished 

 by the Canadian magnetic observatories and by various universities. 



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