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ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORIES .

(h) Chronometers: Two sidereal 5 makers, Feodsiiam, 3451; Bond,236; one tkermometric chronometer, Feodshaji, 3424.

(i) Miscellaneous: Comet-seeker and other small telescopes and ap-paratus.

Cambkidgeport, Massachusetts .

Private Observatory.

Longitude from Washington, 23 m 49* E. (approximately).

Latitude , 42° 21' 56" F. (approximately).

Director: E. F. Saivyee.

Chicago , Illinois .

Dearborn Observatory.

Longitude from Washington, 42 m 14.69 s W.

Latitude, 41° 59' 1 " IN.

Directors: T. H. Safeord, 1865.

Elias Colbert, 1874.

G. W. Hough , 1879.

Annexed to the university. Founded by subscription in 1822.Instruments:

(a) Meridian circle: Makers, Bepsold & Son ; diameter of circle, 40inches; divided to 2'; read by 4 microscopes to 0.1"; aperture of object-ive, 6 inches; for observations of the sun, aperture employed, 3 inches.

(c) Equatorial instrument: Makers, Alvan Clark & Sons ; apertureof objective, 18J inches; magnifying powers of eye-pieces, positive, 120 ,190, 287, 385, 900; negative, 135, 225, 450, 900.

(/) Chronograph: G. W. Hough ; cylinder recording.

(g) Cloclcs: One mean time; makers, Howard & Co. ; Graham es-capement, mercury pendulum; one sidereal; makers, Charles Gort-ner & Co., London ; Graham escapement, mercury pendulum.

(h) Chronometer: Sidereal ; makers, Bond & Son.

(i) Miscellaneous: Signal mean time clock for transmitting time sig-nals.

Cincinnati , Ohio .

Cincinnati Observatory . (See Mount Lookout.)

Clinton, Few York.

Litchfield Observatory of Hamilton College .

Longitude from Washington, 6 m 34.65* E.

Latitude, 43° 3' 17" F.

Authority for longitude and latitude: Longitude telegraphically de-termined from Cambridge , Mass . Latitude by stars in primevertical.

Director: C. W. F. Peters.

Founded in 1852 by subscription; completed in 1855; central edifice