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...clear in northwestern Sumatra and partly cloudy in the neck of the Malay Peninsula for about five minutes early one afternoon last week. Half an hour later ! there were three minutes of almost perfect weather in the Philippines. If there had been perfect weather in all places the world would have been happier. As it was, there was a fair amount of contentment. Several hundred thousand dollars had been ventured on the prospect of there being good weather in those peculiar places during those particular minutes. Some twelve expeditions had traveled half way around the globe with unwieldy scientific impedimenta...
...partial phase of the eclipse was visible in parts of Africa, southern Asia and a large part of Oceania, totality (where the full shadow of the moon fell upon the earth's surface) was over the ocean except on the northern tip of Sumatra, a segment of the Malay Peninsula, the southern tip of Siam and a few Philippine Islands. At the centre of the track the maximum duration of the eclipse was about five minutes, with duration decreasing at each...
...thing in particular was hoped for -to obtain pictures of the corona from two points where the eclipse would take place at times a half-hour apart. On this account stations were located, not only in Sumatra and the nearby Malay Peninsula where the eclipse had nearly its maximum duration, but also in the Philippines where the duration was considerably less. As it happened, the shorter duration in the Philippines was more than offset by better weather. In Sumatra there was clear weather for the necessary half-hour, but some of the expeditions on the Malay Peninsula failed entirely. There...
...England, France, Germany and Holland made observations, took photographs. Among the U. S. observers were: Swarthmore's Dr. John Anthony Miller (famed among astronomers for luck-this was his seventh eclipse and all have been clear), in Sumatra; Harvard's Prof. Harlan True Stetson, in the Malay Peninsula; Commander Chester H. J. Keppler of the U. S. Naval Observatory, at Iloilo in the Philippines. Each had a train of assistants...
Died. Caspar Whitney, 64, author, editor, explorer (North and South Americas, India, Siam, Malay), onetime war correspondent (Cuba, Mexico, France); of pneumonia; in Manhattan...