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ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORIES.

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Instruments :

(a) Meridian circle: One; maker, Repsold, in Hamburg ; diameterof circle, 3G inches; divided to 2'; read by 4 microscopes to 0.1"; aper-ture of objective, 5.3 inches; magnifying power ordinarily employed,100 diameters.

(c) Equatorial instrument; Maker, Merz, in Munich ; aperture of ob-jective, 10.7 inches ; magnifying power of eye-pieces, 100 to 1,200. (o')

Photoheliograph of Dalmayer, in London .

( d) Universal spectroscope of Merz, in Munich ; direct vision with10 prisms and micrometer.

( e ) One photometer of Zollner.

(/) Chronograph : of Siemens and Halsice.

(g) Cloclcs: Mean time, two; makers, Tiede, Utzschneider ; sidereal,two; makes, Kessels, Tolstoi .

(h) Chronometers: Mean time, two; maker, Dent; sidereal, two;makers. Dent, Kessels.

(i) Miscellaneous: Transportable transit instruments, theodolites, uni-versal instruments, etc.

Munciien, Bavaria .

Konigliche Sternwarte, Bogenhausen .

Longitude from Greenwich, 46 m 26.13 s E.

Latitude, 48° 8' 45.5" N.

Directors: K. F. von Seyffer, 1809.

J. VON Soldner , 1819-1833.

Prof. Dr. J. von Lamont , 1833-1879.

Dr. Seidel (provisory).

Prof. Dr. H. Seeligek, October, 1882.

Founded in 1809, on the hill of Bogenhausen, near Munich ; a mainbuilding of one story, facing east and west; two wings extend towardthe north. An edifice designed for the purpose was put up in the gar-den for a great refractor, by the aid of which Lamont made his obser-vations of the satellites of Saturn and of the nebulae.

Munich, Bavaria . (See Munciien.)

Munster, Prussia.

Sternwarte.

Longitude from Greenwich, 30 m 31 s E.

Latitude, 5U 58' 10" FT.

Authority for longitude and latitude: Connaissance des Temps, 18S4,p. xxvii.

Directors: E. Heis, 1S52-1877.

Professor Sturm.

Founded in 1852, in the neighborhood of the academy (high school).