State of Connecticut
BY HIS EXCELLENCY
JOHN H. TRUMBULL
GOVERNOR
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On Saturday, the twenty-fourth of January, the people of Connecticut
are to have an opportunity to witness a scientific event of the first
importance—
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This phenomenon has been visible in New England only twice since
the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, and only fourteen times in the last
two thousand years. On the present occurrence Connecticut has a
particularly favorable position in the path of totality and astronomers and
others are coming to our state from all parts of the world, to view a
natural happening which affords so infrequent occasions for scientific
study.
I earnestly urge all school authorities and teachers, at some time prior
to the coming of the Eclipse, to devote a reasonable time for instruction
and explanation of this unusual astronomical event; and to all others for
whom it may be convenient I recommend that advantage be taken of
this exceptional opportunity to witness a spectacle which is now engag-
ing the attention of scholars and learned institutions of the world. It is
a manifestation of the enlightened age in which we live that solar eclipses
are no longer regarded, as by the ancients and savages, as auguries of war
and disaster, but as opportunities for scientific research, fraught with the
possibilities of new fields of knowledge for this generation.
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Given under my hand and seal of the State at the Capitol, in Hartford, this fifteenth day of
January, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five and of the
independence of the United States the one hundred and forty-ninth.
By His Excellency’s Command:
Secretary.




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