AMATEUR ASTRONOMERS MAY HELP EXPERT OBSERVATIONS

Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, students, and all other amateur astronomers, are asked to aid the University Observatory in studying Saturday's eclipse of the sun, in a statement issued yesterday.

The Observatory has already stationed several observers along the path of totality. These will attempt to measure photographically the light of the corona, which special problem has been delegated to the University.

All others who happen to fall along the northern border of the path of totality, which extends approximately from Cotuit, directly through Providence to Stafford, Connecticut, are asked to observe whether or not the bright edge of the sun disappears at their particular location. If they report their findings to the University Observatory, they will help materially in more accurately fixing the edge of the path.