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Elizabeth Brown's Expedition to Trinidad to Observe the Total Solar Eclipse of 22 December, 1889

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The Royal Astronomical Society intended to organise and two eclipse expeditions, spread across from French Guyana to the then Portuguese colony of Angola on this date to observe changes in the solar corona. However, Brown organised a third unofficial expedition to Trinidad with her relative Martha Louisa Jeffreys.

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