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RefNoPP/9/19
Previous numbersPP/41/23
LevelItem
TitlePaper, 'Captain Darwin's report' by Captain Darwin
CreatorDarwin (fl 1886)
Date1886
DescriptionDarwin 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'.
Extent5p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk and graphite pencil on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1886.0117
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA6090Strutt; John William (1842 - 1919); 3rd Baron Rayleigh1842 - 1919
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