Excerpt from Reports of Observations of the Total Eclipse of the Sun, August 7, 1869<br/><br/>Sir: In response to recommendations In my annual report in October, 1868, and the representations of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Boston, the American Philosophical Society and the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, and of others interested in the promotion of science, Congress appropriated for observations of the eclipse 'of the sun in August, 1869, under the direction of the superintendent of the Nautical Almanac. The appropriation was desired for defraying expenses of observers, of moving instruments of sufficient power to the line of central eclipse, and of preparing for abun dant photographic records and spectroscopic observations....
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