Solar observatory at Krasnoyarsk, Siberia puncture Birch and His Young Friends'

Birch and His Young Friends'

It was created in 1720 on land devised to the Haberdashers' Company (hence the name)

Scene inside Hanover Square Rooms showing the Grand Fancy Fair and Bazaar held in aid of the Society of Friends of Foreigners in Distress

David Smallman

Solar observatory at Krasnoyarsk, Siberia puncture Birch and His Young Friends'View of a temporary astronomical observatory outside the city of Krasnoyarsk, Siberia in Russia. Sheds and instrument platforms can be seen on the skyline grouped around an existing small church tower. The observatory was used to record the total solar eclipse visible in Russia on 7 August 1889. Extra illustration pasted before the title page of the book Eclipse totale du soleil Aout, 1887. issued in Russian [title page also in French] by the Socit