Page from the Royal Society Visitors book 1856-1866 relating to 10 April 1862. On this day, Warren De La Rue read his lecture 'The Bakerian lecture —On the total solar eclipse of July 18th, 1860, observed at Rivabellosa, near Miranda de Ebro, in Spain'. The list of attendants included art critic and astronomy enthusiast John Ruskin and physician Henry Acland among others.