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ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORIES.

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Cadiz , Spain .

Naval Observatory '. (See San Fernando .)

Cairo , Egypt .

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 , England.

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. Johns 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.

Capetown , Africa .

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.