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BY the time this note appears in print, the parties stationed at various points on the long belt of totality will know whether atmospheric conditions have enabled them to carry out their eclipse programmes, or whether the many months of organisation and preparation have been in vain. Certain preliminary reports will, we hope, be available for publication in our next issue. An outline of the plans of the various expeditions was given in an article in NATURE of April 25, p. 685. Starting from Greece in southeastern Europe, expeditions are stationed in Asia Minor, the Caucasus, at various places in Siberia, in Manchukuo and in Japan. One party sent by the Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee of the Royal Society and the Royal Astronomical Society, under the leadership of Prof. F. J. M. Stratton, has set up its apparatus at Hamishari in Hokkaido; the other British expedition, under Prof. J. A. Carroll, is at Omsk. We understand from Dr. T. Banachiewicz, of the Cracow Observatory, that four Polish expeditions are observing the eclipse, paying particular attention to Baily's beads; one is in Japan, at Tsubetsu, one in the region of Omsk, and two in Greece (one on the island of Chios and one in the vicinity of Athens). All four expeditions are using similar chrono-cine-matographical instruments with neon tubes constructed at the Cracow Observatory. Prof. B. Gerasimovic, writing from the Eclipse Camp at Ak Boulak, near Orenburg, informs us that there are no less than twelve foreign parties and twenty-eight Soviet expeditions observing the eclipse from the U.S.S.R. The observing parties are stationed at Beloretchenskaya (North Caucasus). Ak Boulak (near Orenburg), Sara (near Orenburg), Kustanay, Omsk, Krasnojarsk and Botchkarevo (Far East). Prof. Gerasimovic has kindly undertaken to cable to NATURE a brief statement of results obtained from these stations, and we are also expecting to have a similar communication from Prof. Stratton.
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Total Solar Eclipse of June 19. Nature 137, 1022 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/1371022c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1371022c0