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while the northern sky is left to the care of more northern observatories.Star occupations and comets will be taken in occasionally. If the staffof the observatory be raised, as is hoped, to three regular observers andone servant, the establishment will be able to produce useful results.
Morrison Observatory.
Longitude from Washington, l 1 * 3 m 5.93 8 W.
Latitude, 39° 16' 10.75" N.
Authority for longitude: Exchange of clock-signals with the Naval Ob-servatory in June and July, 1879, five nights; latitude, fromcircumpolar stars observed on meridian circle.
Director: 0. W. Pritchett.
The observatory was founded, 1875-’7G, by the liberality of Miss Ber-enice Morrison, of Saint Louis .
Instruments :
(a) Meridian circle: One; makers, Troughton & Simms; diameterof circles, 24 inches; divided to 5'; read by 4 microscopes to 1"; aper-ture of objective, 6 inches; for observations of the sun, aperture em-ployed, 4 inches; magnifying power ordinarily employed, 200 diameters.
(c) Equatorial instrument : Makers, Alvan Clark & Sons; apertureof objective, 12J inches; magnifying powers of eye-pieces, 50 to 1,200.(/) Chronograph: One.
(g) Clock : Sidereal; maker, Charles Frodsham, London .
(h) Chronometer: Sidereal ; maker, T. S. & J. D. Negus, New York.(?') Miscellaneous: Alt-azimuth, by L. P. Casella, London ; comet-
seeker, by Alvan Clark & Sons.
McKim Observatory of De Fame University.
Longitude from Washington, 14“ 17.91 s W.
Latitude. 39° 37' N.
Director: J. P. D. John.
Shattuck Observatory of Dartmouth College .
Longitude from Washington, 19™ 3.50“ E.
Latitude, 43° 42' 15.2" N.
Authority for longitude and latitude, Prof. C. A. Young.
Directors : C. A. Young, 1853.
Charles F. Emerson, 1878.
Founded in 1853 through the liberality of Dr. G. S. Shattuck. Con-