| RefNo | PP/9/19 |
| Previous numbers | PP/41/23 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Paper, 'Captain Darwin's report' by Captain Darwin |
| Creator | Darwin (fl 1886) |
| Date | 1886 |
| Description | Darwin writes: 'The instruments allotted to me consisted of the coronagraph and the prismatic camera; the two instruments being mounted on the same equatorial stand. The prismatic camera is the same instrument which was used at the eclipses of 1882 and 1884. It consists of an ordinary photographic camera with a 60° prism placed in front of the lens.'
Annotations in pencil and ink throughout.
Subject: Astronomy
Received 25 November 1886. Read 16 December 1886. Communicated by Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt].
A version of this paper was published in volume 41 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Preliminary account of the observations of the eclipse of the sun at Grenada in August, 1886'. |
| Extent | 5p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink and graphite pencil on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1886.0117 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA6090 | Strutt; John William (1842 - 1919); 3rd Baron Rayleigh; experimental and mathematical physicist | 1842 - 1919 |