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THE illustrations which accompany this, for the loan of which we are indebted to the courtesy of the Editor of the Illustrated London News, are from photographs of the Eclipse party stationed at Bekul, taken by Mr. McC. Webster, the Collector of South Canara. The first represents the fort in which Mr. Lockyer and Captain. Maclear had erected their instruments. Mr. Davis's photographic and Dr. Thomson's polariscopic observations being carried on at a little distance below. The instruments represented are the 9¼ reflector constructed by Mr. Browning, with a mounting by Cooke, and the double refractor, consisting of two telescopes of six inches aperture, mounted on one of the universal stands prepared for the Transit of Venus obstrvations in 1874, and lent by the Astronomer Royal.
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The Eclipse Observations at Bekul . Nature 5, 265–268 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/005265b0
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