Letter from H H [Herbert Hall] Turner, University Observatory, Oxford, to [Joseph] Larmor With regard to [Charles Edmund] Stromeyer's suggestion, he refers to Otto Struve's preparations for stationing observers at limits to determine whether an eclipse was total; and in 1900 [Charles] Trepied of Algiers though of placing a row of schoolchildren along a road, but did not do it. Turner agrees with Stromeyer that such observations should be attempted, and might be this year in Egypt, Spain, or both, and perhaps Labrador. He suggests asking Captain [Henry] Lyons in Egypt to station troops along marked points of a railway line. The observation is not easy, with interference from the chromosphere. He asks if Stromeyer or the Royal Society wuld be interested in helping and if so, Turner would proceed in an Egyptian attempt. 28 April 1905