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ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORIES .

Instruments :

(b) Meridian transit instrument: Makers, Ertel & Soiin (smallpassage instrument.), aperture, 1.5 inches. (V) Another by Brauer inSt. Petersburg (universal instrument).

( g) Clocks: One mean time; maker, F. Flauth, in St. Petersburg (without No.); another regulator, without name.

( h ) Chronometers: Mean time; makers, F. Flauth, No. 37 : Wiren,No. 80.

(i) Miscellaneotis: Magnetic theodolite, Brauer, No. 37; Brauer’scompass for magnetical declination and intensity ; Gambey’s inclinato-riuin; variation magnetometers (syst. Gauss); several series of me-teorological instruments of different construction; thermometers forobservation of the temperature from superficy to 3 meters depth.

Florence, Italy .

I. Beale Osservatorio Astronomico di Firenze ad Arcetri .

Longitude from Greenwich, 45 m 3.13 B E.

Latitude , 43° 45' 14.3" N.

Authority for longitude and latitude: Eoyal Staff of Engineers.Director: Guglielmo Tempel.

II. Observatory of the Royal Museum.

Longitude from Greenwich, 45 m 1.5 s E.

Latitude , 43° 4G' 4.1" N.

Directors: Prof. F. Fontana, 1784.

Alessandro Galilei .

-- Fabijroni, 1805.

Count Girolamo Bardi, 1807.

Domenico De Yecchi, 1808.

Gaetamo Del Eicco, 1814.

Father Inghirami, 1815.

Luigi Pons, 1825.

Giovanni Battista Amici , 1837.

G. IL Donati, 1859.

Domenico Cipoletti, 1873.

Prof. Pittei, 1874.

Guglielmo Tempel, 1875.

III. Meteoroloejical Observatory of the Royal Museum.

Longitude from Greenwich,-.

Latitude, -.

Director: Dr. Pittei, 1875.