Three Possibilities Anticipated. According to Newton's assumption, light consists of corpuscles, or minute particles, emitted from the source of light. If this be true these particles, having mass, should be affected by the gravitational pull of the sun. If we apply Newton's theory of gravitation and make use of his formula, it can be shown that such a gravitational pull would displace the ray of light by an average amount equal to 0.75 (seconds of angular distance.) [4] On the other hand, where light is regarded as waves set in motion in the "ether" of space (the wave theory of light), and where weight is denied light altogether, no deviation need be expected. Finally there is a third alternative: Einstein's. Light, says Einstein, has mass, and therefore probably weight. Mass is the matter light contains; weight represents pull by gravity. Light rays will be attracted by the sun, but according to Einstein's theory of gravitation the sun's gravitational pull will displace the rays by an average amount equal to 1.75 (seconds of angular distance). The Expeditions. That science is highly international, despite many recent examples to the contrary, is evidenced by this British Eclipse Expedition. Here was a theory propounded by one who had accepted a chair of physics in the university of Berlin, and across the English Channel were Germany's mortal enemies making elaborate preparations to test the validity of the Berlin professor's theory. The British Astronomical Society began to plan the eclipse expedition even before the outbreak of the Great War. During the years that followed, despite the destinies of nations which hung on threads from day to day, despite the darkest hours in the history of the British people, our English astronomers continued to give attention to the details of the proposed expedition. When the day of the eclipse came all was in readiness. One expedition under Dr. Crommelin was sent to Sobral, Brazil; another, under Prof. Eddington, to Principe, an island off the west coast of Africa. In both these places a total eclipse was anticipated. The eclipse occurred on May 29, 1919. It lasted for six to eight minutes. Some 15 photographs, with an average exposure of five to six seconds, were taken. Two months later another series of photographs of the same region were taken, but this time the sun was no longer in the midst of these stars. The photographs were brought to the famous Greenwich Observatory, near London, and the astronomers and mathematicians began their laborious measurements and calculations.