A little ramble through 19th century astronomy - US Naval Observatory report from 1867

In a report from the Nature magazine of November 10th 1870 says that the astronomical and meteorological observations made at the United States Naval Observatory during 1867 have just been published in a large quarto volume. 

There is an appendix of reports on the observations of the total eclipse of the Sun on August 7 1869, the various phases of which are beautifully illustrated by chromo-lithographs, and the various instruments made use of are particularly described.

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