scholarly journals Preliminary Report of the Joint Solar Eclipse Committee of the Royal Society, the Royal Astronomical Society, and the Solar Physics Committee on the Observations of the Solar Eclipse of 1893 April 16

1893 ◽  
Vol 53 (8) ◽  
pp. 472-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. A. Common
Keyword(s):  
Solar Eclipse ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Solar Physics ◽  
Astronomical Society ◽  
Royal Astronomical Society

I. Preliminary report of the joint solar eclipse committee of the Royal Society, the Royal Astronomical Society, and the solar physics committee on the observations of the solar eclipse of April 16, 1893

1894 ◽  
Vol 54 (326-330) ◽  
pp. 28-30
Keyword(s):  
Solar Eclipse ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Solar Physics ◽  
Astronomical Society ◽  
Royal Astronomical Society ◽  
Complete Report ◽  
The Government ◽  
Government Grant

The Joint Committee have requested me to make the following brief report on the observations of the Eclipse. This will be followed shortly by a more complete report. The Joint Committee was formed early in 1892, a grant of money was obtained from the Government Grant Fund of the Royal Society, and preparations were at once begun. After due consideration, it was decided to send out two observing expeditions, one to Fundium, on the Salum River, in Senegambia, and one to Pará-Curu, in the Province of Ceará, in the northern part of Brazil. With the exception of the work undertaken by Professor Thorpe, the whole of the observations were photographic. Three classes of work were undertaken at each station.

scholarly journals Solar eclipse of May 28, 1900. Preliminary report of the expedition to the south limit of totality to obtain photographs of the flash spectrum in high solar latitudes

1901 ◽  
Vol 67 (435-441) ◽  
pp. 370-385 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Eclipse ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
The South ◽  
Astronomical Society ◽  
Royal Astronomical Society ◽  
The Government ◽  
Flash Spectrum ◽  
Government Grant

This expedition was one of those organised by the Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee of the Royal Society and the Royal Astronomical Society, funds being provided from a grant made by the Government Grant Committee. The following were the principal objects which I had in view in arranging the expedition:— To obtain a long series of photographs of the chromosphere and flash spectrum, including regions of the sun’s surface in mid-latitudes, and near one of the poles.

scholarly journals Total Solar Eclipse of 1901, May 17-18. Preliminary report of the observations made at Ayer Karoe, Sawah Loento, Sumatra

1902 ◽  
Vol 69 (451-458) ◽  
pp. 209-234
Keyword(s):  
Solar Eclipse ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Total Solar Eclipse ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Astronomical Society ◽  
Royal Astronomical Society ◽  
The Government ◽  
Government Grant

This expedition was one of those organised by the Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee of the Royal Society and Royal Astronomical Society, funds being provided from a grant made by the Government Grant Committee. It was originally contemplated that the party should consist of Professor H. H. Turner and myself, and that we should occupy a station inland in Sumatra; but when the former found himself unable join in the expedition, it was decided not to appoint another observer in his stead, nor to fix upon the station to be occupied until there was an opportunity of learning about local conditions, on the spot.

scholarly journals Total solar eclipse, 1905, August 29-30. Preliminary report of the observations made at Guelma, Algeria

1906 ◽  
Vol 77 (514) ◽  
pp. 56-76
Keyword(s):  
Solar Eclipse ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Total Solar Eclipse ◽  
The South ◽  
Royal Astronomical Society ◽  
The North ◽  
Royal Observatory ◽  
The Government ◽  
Government Grant

The expedition to which this report refers was one of those organised by the Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee of the Royal Society and the Royal Astronomical Society; it was supported by a grant made by the Government Grant Committee. Guelma was chosen for the site of the observations, as being an inland station between Sfax, which was selected for an expedition from the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and Philippeville, which it was at first expected Sir Norman Lockyer would occupy. Guelma is 58 kilometres from Bona, 65 kilometres from Philippeville, 55 kilometres from the nearest coast of the Mediterranean Sea; it lies at a height of about 1200 feet above sea-level on the south side of the Valley of the Seybouze, amongst hills which range in height from about 3100 feet at 13 kilometres to the north, to about 4700 feet at 11 kilometres on the south, where lies the celebrated mountain, Mahouna, “the sleeping lady,” so called from the resemblance of its silhouette to the form of a woman. (For the position of the observing hut, see p. 59.)

Report on the expedition to Sahdol, Rewah State, Central India, to observe the total solar eclipse of 1898, January 22

1899 ◽  
Vol 64 (402-411) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Keyword(s):  
Solar Eclipse ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Central India ◽  
Total Solar Eclipse ◽  
Astronomical Society ◽  
Royal Astronomical Society ◽  
The Government ◽  
Government Grant ◽  
A Site

1. This expedition was organised by the Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee of the Royal Society and Royal Astronomical Society, funds being provided from a grant made the Government Grant Committe. The Government of India made excellent arrangements for the party, and the Surveyor-General of India with the staff of his Department rendered great service in selecting a site, clearing the jungle, establishing a camp, erecting the instruments, and in giving every assistance in the observations, for all of which the observers desire to tender their thanks.

scholarly journals Address BY Dr. J. H. Jeans, President of the Royal Astronomical Society and Secretary of the Royal Society.

1925 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 151-152
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Special Care ◽  
Natural Knowledge ◽  
Astronomical Society ◽  
Good Fortune ◽  
Royal Astronomical Society ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
Learned Societies ◽  
Lord Chancellor

My Lord Chancellor, Mr. Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Campbell, Ladies and Gentlemen: It would be an impertinence on my part to try to add anything to the Cambridge welcome which the Chancellor has offered you, but it is my privilege to be allowed to offer you a few words of welcome from a somewhat different angle. As the Chancellor has said, it is my good fortune to be officially connected with the two learned societies to whom, I suppose, your visit to this country means most: the Royal Society, which takes all natural knowledge for its province, and which is especially interested in international co-operation in the pursuit of such knowledge, and the Royal Astronomical Society, which takes astronomical knowledge for its special care. I am sure that both these bodies would wish that I should seize this opportunity to offer a most cordial welcome to our astronomical visitors from other countries; a welcome not only to Cambridge, but to this country in general. We feel it right that your visit should begin at Cambridge, but we are sure it is not right that it should end there; we hope you will remember that, after Cambridge, London also exists.

scholarly journals Obituary notices

1930 ◽  
Vol 126 (803) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Trinity College ◽  
London Mathematical Society ◽  
Mathematical Society ◽  
Astronomical Society ◽  
Senior Member ◽  
Royal Astronomical Society

Dr. Glaisher died on December 7, 1928, at the age of eighty years. At the time of his death he was the senior of the actual Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, was the senior member of the London Mathematical Society, and was almost the senior in standing among the Fellows of the Royal Society and among the Fellows of the Royal Astronomical Society. Throughout all his years he was devoted to astronomy, chiefly in its mathematical developments. In his prime he ranked as one of the recognised English pure mathematicians of his generation, pursuing mainly well-established subjects by methods that were uninfluenced by the current developments of analysis then effected in France and in Germany. Towards the end of his life he had attained high station as an authority on pottery, of which he had diligently amassed a famous collection. Glaisher was the elder son of James Glaisher, F. R. S., himself an astronomer, a mathematician specially occupied with the calculation of numerical tables, and a pioneer in meteorology, not without risk to his life. For the father, one of the founders of the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain, was an aeronaut of note; with Coxwell, in 1862, he made the famous balloon ascent which reached the greatest height (about seven miles) ever recorded by survivors.

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