Professor Loomis published (besides many papers in the American Journal of Science and in the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society) many textbooks on mathematics, including Analytical Geometry and of the Differential and Integral Calculus, published in 1835.

In 1859 Alexander Wylie, assistant director of London Missionary Press in Shanghai, in cooperation with fellow Chinese scholar Li Shanlan, translated Elias Loomis's book on Geometry, Differential and Integral Calculus into Chinese.

Loomis's writings thus played an important role in the transfer of analytical mathematical knowledge to the Far East.

In the week that covered the end of August and the beginning of September, 1859, there occurred an exceedingly brilliant display of the Northern Lights.

Believing that an exhaustive discussion of a single aurora promised to do more for the promotion of science than an imperfect study of an indefinite number of them, Professor Loomis undertook at once to collect and to collate accounts of this display.

These observations and the discussions of them were given to the public during the following two years, in a series of nine papers in the American Journal of Science.

Thus over a broad belt on both continents this large region above the lower atmosphere was filled with masses of luminous material.

A display similar to this, and possibly of equal brilliancy, was at the same time witnessed in the Southern Hemisphere.

Professor Loomis, however, went on to collect facts about other auroras, and to make inductions from the whole of the material thus brought together.

He showed also that all the principal phenomena of electricity were developed during the auroral display of 1859; that light was developed in passing from one conductor to another, that heat in poor conductors, that the peculiar electric shock to the animal system, the excitement of magnetism in irons, the deflection of the magnetic needle, the decomposition of chemical solutions, each and all were produced during the auroral storm, and evidently by its agency.

There were also in America effects upon the telegraph that were entirely consistent with the assumption previously made by Walker for England, that currents of electricity moved from northeast to southwest across the country.

The great auroral exhibition of August 28 to September 4, 1859, and the geographical distribution of auroras and thunder storms—5th article.

On electrical currents circulating near the earth's surface and their connection with the phenomena of the aurora polaris—9th article.

As part of a 2006 review[3] of the Geomagnetic Storm of 1859, M. A. Shea and D. F. Smart edited a compendium[4] of eight articles published by Elias Loomis in the American Journal of Science from 1859 to 1861.

Of the eleven pages in the ninth paper, only half a page deals with the great auroral exhibition of 1859, previously reported by Loomis, while the bulk of the paper deals with auroral events predating 1859.

In the Compendium, for the 5th article in the series, the section on thunderstorms totaling six pages, is omitted with footnotes documenting the removal by the editors.

In a November 21, 1861, paper[5] to the Royal Society Balfour Stewart acknowledged the work of Professor E. Loomis.

It is unnecessary to enter into further particulars regarding this meteor, as the description of it given by observations at places widely apart have been collected together by Professor E. Loomis, and published in a series of papers communicated to the American Journal of Science and Arts.

I shall only add that, both from the European, the American, and the Australian accounts, there appear to have been two great displays, each commencing at nearly the same absolute time, throughout the globe, —the first on the evening of 28 August, and the second on the early morning of 2 September, Greenwich time.Reports Associated With the 28 August, 1859, Geomagnetic Storm Balfour Stewart reported that a large magnetic storm began at 22:30 GMT on the evening of August 28, 1859, as measured by self-recording magnetometer at the Kew Observatory.

Reports Associated With the Carrington White Light Solar Flare Geomagnetic Storm Balfour Stewart reported that the magnetic storm from the Carrington solar flare began at 05:00 GMT on the morning of September 2, 1859, as measured by the self-recording magnetometer at the Kew Observatory.

In all areas of the United States, not obscured by clouds, viewing conditions would have been ideal while the magnetic storm was at maximum intensity.

Note that some locations in the Western United States could have reported events for late in the evening of September 1, 1859.

The New York Times report from Boston is of particular note because it may provide enough information to calculate the minimum illumination generated by the aurora.

There was another display on the aurora last night, so brilliant that at about one o'clock ordinary print could be read by the light.

One o'clock Boston time on Friday September 2, would have been 6:00 GMT and the self-recording magnetograph at the Kew Observatory was recording the geomagnetic storm, which was then one hour old, at its full intensity.

Reports Associated With Both Geomagnetic Storms In George Bartlett Prescott's book,[11] Chapter XIX on Terrestrial Magnetism (pp.

James D. Reid's book is recommended by the author of the report "The Aurora Borealis and the Telegraph.

[13] See pages i – xxii of The American Journal of Science (1890, volume 39, number 234) for a list of Loomis's publications.