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THE TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE OF 1900. 
Reporr oF THE JoINT COMMITTEE APPOINTED BY THE Councits or THE Royat Dusiin Socrery 
AND Royat IrtsH AcADEMY. 
Read before a joint Meeting of the Royal Irish Academy and Royal Dublin Society, Marcu 27, 1901. 
(PLATES VI.-VIII.) 
CONTENTS. 
PAGE PAGE 
I. Pror. C. J. Joty’s Report, : ; : OO II. Mr. W. E. Witson’s Report, . 0 5 iO) 
Origin of the Expedition, : : 5 > 68 
Selection of a Station, . , i . . 66 III. Str Howarp Grusp’s Revort, 5 : : 1 
Instruments, . 5 : ‘ ; > OF Kinematograph, : : ; . _ 73 
Members of the Hepediions 4 5 : > OF eee ; aS 
Long-focus Camera 67 Description of Figures, . : : : LO 
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D £ Photograph f the C a (by 
wie ese, Gecesetian: carotene (L) 68 IV. Dr. A. A. Rampavur’s Reporr, . 5 5 0 wae 
Remarks on the Renrodaenione : : o Temperature of the Air during the Eclipse, . 87 
Miscellaneous Remarks, . : : : > 70 
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ProFressor C. J. Jony’s Report. 
Origin of the Expedition. 
In the summer of the year 1899, Sir Howard Grubb proposed that a Joint 
Committee should be appointed by the Councils of the Royal Dublin Society and 
the Royal Irish Academy to consider the feasibility of fitting out an expedition 
to observe the Total Solar Eclipse of 1900, May 28th. As many members of 
the Societies signified their intention of witnessing the eclipse, it seemed probable 
that the number of those joining the expedition would be sufficiently large to 
justify the chartering of a steamer, and it was believed that the greater part of 
the cost of the instrumental equipment might be defrayed by fixing the prices of 
the berths slightly in excess of the contract charge. 
The Committee was duly elected, and 130 provisional applications for berths 
were received ; but when it became necessary to ask for definite promises, only 
thirteen members ratified their applications. The Committee attributed this 
extraordinary falling off in numbers to the unsettling effect of the war in South 
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