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...Point Concepción (on the California coast just above Santa Barbara) and the vicinity of San Diego at the extreme Southwest corner of the state. Thence it sweeps diagonally across Mexico and Yucatan and on out into the Caribbean and Atlantic, crossing some of the West Indies. The Santa Catalina Islands, off the Southern California coast, are directly in the path of totality, and one of them, San Clemente, is exactly on the center line, with practically the total possible duration. In Mexico other advantageous points for viewing the eclipse are at Ensenada (in Lower California), Hermosillo (in Sonora), Cuencam?...
...Yerkes Observatory expedition headed by Director Edwin B. Frost and Captain Barnett Harris, of the War Department, will take motion pictures of the eclipse with four cameras placed 15 miles apart. They will be stationed on Santa Catalina Island...
...Washburn Observatory expedition, University of Wisconsin, will be on Santa Catalina Island...
...Goodsell Observatory expedition, Carleton College, Northfield, Minn., will observe from Santa Catalina Island...
...party will then go to the petrified forest in Arizona, the Grand Canon, Los Angeles, Santa Catalina Island, the Yosemite Valley and will spend a day or two in San Francisco where they will visit the new anthropological museum of the University of California. From here they will journey north to Victoria by way of Portland and Seattle and will spend a few days in the Canadian Rockies. Here the party will break up about the last of August...