Record

RefNoMS/373/1/8
LevelItem
TitleLetter from William Harkness, Naval Observatory, Washington DC, to Thomas Edward Thorpe
Date7 December 1878
DescriptionDescribes unsuccessful attempts to find a means of reproducing eclipse photographs for publication. He intends to make drawings from the photographs, including one showing the 'great wings of the outer corona'. Encloses a numbered set of photographs of the eclipse taken at Creston [present]. Thanks Thorpe for the paper on absorption spectra of iodine, but draws his attention to Professor Pickering's priority over Professor Stokes on the method of determining wavelengths.
Extent4p and 5 photographs
FormatManuscript
AccessStatusOpen
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