... light on the constitution of the Sun. In 18 85, the Royal Society, London, constituted the Indian ObservatoriesCommittee comprised of the Astronomer Royal, and a few Fellows of the Royal and Royal ... expedition by Eddington in 19 19 thatgave an accurate measure of the bending of a light beam in the gravitational field of the Sun, the effect of gravitational redshift on the spectral lines in the Sun ... positions of stars, and a principal source of stellar positions for mostof the southern hemisphere stars. John Goldingham (17 96 18 05, 18 12 18 30), T.G.Taylor (18 30 18 48), W.S. Jacob (18 49 18 58), and...