X. Preliminary report on the results obtained in Novaya Zemlya with the prismatic camera during the eclipse of the sun, August 9th, 1896

• Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical or Physical Character
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Royal Society 1897
• Subjects: Shackleton; Novaya Zemlya; Lapland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.1897.0010; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsta.1897.0010

I state in another communication the arrangements made for obtaining results with prismatic cameras in Lapland, and how the attempts failed through bad weather. After the instruments had been dispatched to Lapland in H. M. S. “Volage,” Sir George Baden-Powell, K. C. M. G., M. P., generously, and with admirable public spirit, offered to take an expedition to Novaya Zemlya in his yacht “Otaria,” if observers and instruments were forthcoming. Sir George Baden-Powell consulted me on the subject, and ultimately, with the authority of the Vice-President of the Council, Mr. Shackleton, one of the computers employed by the Solar Physics Committee, was detailed to form part of the expedition.