ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORIES.

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Armagh, Ireland .

Observatory.

Longitude from Greenwich , 2G m 35.5 3 W.

Latitude, 54° 21' 12.7" 1ST.

Authority for longitude and latitude, Counaissance des Temps, 1884,p. xiii.

Directors : J. A. Hamilton, 1792.

T. R. Robinson, 1825.

Asiiitrt, England.

Observatory.

Longitude from Greenwich , l m lG a W.

Latitude, 51° 15' 58" N.

Authority for longitude and latitude, Connaissance des Temps, 1884,p. xiii.

Athens, Greece .

Observatory.

Longitude from Greenwich , l h 34 m 55.7 s E.

Latitude, 37° 5S' 20" N.

Directors : G. G. Bouris, 1844,

J. F. J. Schmidt , 1858.

The observatory is an establishment of Baron Georg von Scna atVienna. At the wish of the first Athenian astronomer, Professor Bou-ris, Baron Prokerch von Osten, the Austrian embassador at theGrecian court, by his influence, had favored the project, and on the8th of July, 1842, during the great eclipse of the sun, King Otto laidthe first brick on the Hill of the Nymphs, the northern extremity ofthe Hills of Onyx , northwesterly of the Akropolis, in an isolated situa-tion, 105 meters above the level of the sea.

The founder of this establishment, Georg von Sina , died in May, 1856.His sou, Simon, Baron von Sina, became the protector, and on May 15,1858, appointed J. F. Julius Schmidt as astronomer, and on the 16thof December, 1858, as director:

Bamberg, Bavaria .

Stermcarte , C. Remeis.

Longitude from Greenwich , 43 m 32 s E.

Latitude, 49° 53' 28" K.

Director: E. IIartwig.