The Forthcoming Total Solar Eclipse, August 21

Abstract

OWING to the great strides made in the study of the physics of the sun, the importance of the occurrence of a total eclipse of the sun is not so great as it was towards the latter end of last century. Nevertheless, there are still some problems to be solved, the data for which can only be obtained on these occasions, thus necessitating the organisation and dispatching of observers to several stations lying on the path traced out by the cone of the moon's shadow as it sweeps over the earth's surface.