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WE are now within two months of the date fixed by Nature, whose name you so worthily wear, for a total Eclipse of the Sun, and it is not probable that she will postpone her appointment for a period sufficient to enable the joint committee of the Royal and Astronomical Societies to renew and succeed in their endeavour to teach the Government what such a phenomenon may, if duly observed, contribute to human knowledge. It may be taken for granted that no encouragement will be afforded by our thrifty rulers to an expedition of sixty-eight astronomers, projected for the quixotic purpose of collecting intelligence not calculated to increase the revenue.
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STRANGE, A. The Government and the Eclipse Expedition. Nature 2, 512–513 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/002512b0
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