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part of the United States wherever it approached totality and attracted 

 to that section of the country, great numbers of astronomers who came 

 with telescopes and cameras ready to make a complete record of the 

 appearance of the sun during the eclipse. It was completely total 

 only along the coast of California, in the extreme southern part of 

 that state and the southwestern corner of Arizona. However, un- 

 fortunate weather conditions made observations impossible in most 

 of this region of totality. 



Fig. 93. — A pictorial record of the solar eclipse of Sept. 10th, 1923, as seen 

 at the Grand Canyon, Arizona. These pictures were taken at ten minute 

 intervals, beginning at 12:50 P. M. and ending at 2:30, with the exception 

 of the one in the lower left-hand corner, which shows the maximum 

 darkening of the sun at 2:06 P. M. 



The Museum geological party, then stationed at Grand Canyon, 

 Arizona, shared in the general interest, but were of course totally un- 

 equipped to photograph the eclipse. It was decided, however, to 

 make the best of the circumstances, and when the day dawned bright 

 and cloudless, all haste was made to set up such photographic appara- 

 tus as was possible and to try our luck at solar photography. Both 

 motion and still pictures were to be taken from the roof of the Hopi 

 House, which afforded an uninterrupted view of the heavens. An 



