This is a Letter from R. K. Rangachan to R. L. Jones regarding the lunar eclipse. It is a query asking if there was a lunar eclipse visible in India on May 7, 1715. It also says that A.D.Maestro Servel and Dikshit stated in their Hindu calendar that there was a total eclipse of the sun on April 22 previously.

This item was about total solar eclipse of 18th August 1868. At Masulipatnam Pogson detected the hydrogen line emission, with a spectroscope. He saw a bright yellow line near the position of D lines of Sodium. The line originated from hitherto unknown element later termed as helium after the source of earliest detection. Hand coloured sketch of the solar spectrum during the Total Solar Eclipse of 1868. Hand coloured picture of the sun before and after the total solar eclipse 1868.