SOLAR ECLIPSE.
EXPEDITION TO SUMATRA WASHINGTON, Saturday. The Navy Department is preparing to send an expedition to Sumatra to observe a solar eclipse visible there on January 14th. The expedition, which will sail from San Francisco on September Ist, will include astronomers from the naval observatory at Washington and from Mount Wilson observatory, California. Three tons of equipment is already en route to San Francisco. A cinema film of the eclipse and the activities of the expedition will be made. A vessel will be sent to conduct radio 'experiments. The collection of zoological specimens for the National Museum is also projected. — Aus .and N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 6 July 1925, Page 3
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106SOLAR ECLIPSE. Wairarapa Daily Times, 6 July 1925, Page 3
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