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Naval Observatory '. (See San Fernando .)
Observatoire KMdivial.
Longitude from Greenwich , 2 1 ’ 5 m 8.91 s E.
Latitude, 30° 4' 38.2" N.
Authority for longitude and latitude: Liste GeneraledesObservatoireset Astronomes, 1887.
Director: Mahmoud.
Founded about 1850.
Cambridge Observatory.
Longitude from Greenwich , 22.75 s E.
Latitude, 52° 12' 51".G 1ST.
Directors : W. Ludlam, 1767.
A. Shepherd, 1769.
S. Vince, 1797.li. Woodiiouse, 1820.
G. B. Airy, 1827. '
J. Challis, 1836.
J. C. Adams, 1860.
Commenced at Christ College; removed to St. John’s College in 1767.In 1764 a special location was assigned to it above the entrance gate ofTrinity College. The senate of the university caused a better observa-tory to be erected in 1820, which was completed in 1824. The struct-ure consists of four halls, forming a cluster of buildings.
Royal Observatory , Gape of Good Rope.
Longitude from Greenwich , l h 13™ 55* E.
Latitude, 33° 56' 3.4" S.
Authority for longitude, Henderson ; for latitude, E. J. Stone.Directors :
F. Fallows, 1820.
T. Henderson, 1831.
T. Maclear, 1834.
E. J. Stone, 1870.
David Gill, 1879.
Founded in 1820. Owned no instruments of importance until 1829.It was not at this observatory that John Herschel made his observa-tions, but some distance from here on a private estate called Feldhauscn.