Paper, 'Captain Darwin's report' by Captain Darwin
Reference number: PP/9/19
Date: 1886
Description
Darwin writes: 'The instruments allotted to me consisted of the coronagraph and the prismatic camera; the two instruments being mounted on the same equatorial stand. The prismatic camera is the same instrument which was used at the eclipses of 1882 and 1884. It consists of an ordinary photographic camera with a 60° prism placed in front of the lens.'
Annotations in pencil and ink throughout.
Subject: Astronomy
Received 25 November 1886. Read 16 December 1886. Communicated by Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt].
A version of this paper was published in volume 41 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Preliminary account of the observations of the eclipse of the sun at Grenada in August, 1886'.
- Reference number
- PP/9/19
- Earliest possible date
- 1886
- Physical description
- Ink and graphite pencil on paper
- Page extent
- 5 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
Creator name
Captain Darwin (fl 1886)
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Captain Darwin (fl 1886), Paper, 'Captain Darwin's report' by Captain Darwin, 1886, PP/9/19, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_9_19/paper-captain-darwins-report-by-captain-darwin, accessed on 08 December 2025
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VII. Preliminary account of the observations of the eclipse of the sun at Grenada in August, 1886 External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1887
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1886.0117
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Scientific papers published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society volume 41, 1886
1886 Reference number: PP/9
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John William Strutt
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