THE EXPEDITION AT BUXAR. 



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also presented themselves, and ere these small distractions were 

 < >\vr the Partial Phase was far advanced. But the animatograph 

 was already in place and duly oriented. The several cameras 

 pit -sided over by Messrs. Cakes, Smith, Hebert, and my 

 daughter, might all be relied on to secure their due records. 

 My son, though unaided, had, as the result proved, arranged his 

 4 T V refractor to take two perfectly successful photographs of 

 thf commencement and middle of totality. Mr. Gibbs, Mrs. 

 Nirolsnii, and Mr. Johnson were to take general observations, 

 the latter undertaking specially to record the appearance of 

 shadow bands, and to expose a plate prepared by Mr. Gare, and 



PILGRIMS WAITING NEAR BUXAR STATIOX. 



designed equally with a somewhat similar device of my own 

 to compare the light of the corona with that of the full moon. 

 .M iss Dixon, assisted by Miss Bevan, gave her undivided attention 

 TO the slitless spectroscope; and it is needless to add that Mr. 

 Moore's sketching party, including Mr. Nicolson, Mrs. Bevan, 

 and Mrs. Oakes, were to be seen seated with bandaged eyes 

 ready for the moment of totality. This I was able to announce 

 myself, standing at my animatograph with a metronome 

 ticking seconds beside me. I was also able to count off aloud 

 each tenth second throughout totality, keeping time the while 

 with the smooth and perfect motion of Mr. Maskelyne's beautiful 

 instrument. 



At the expiration of 92 seconds the total phase abruptly 

 ended, the light came flooding back, and a few moments later a 



