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(. h) Chronometer: Feodsi-iam, No. 3148.
( i) Miscellaneous: A couple of self-recording meteorological and mag-lietical instruments are iu constant use.
Longitude from Greenwich , 31 m 2.49 s E.Latitude, 48° 34' 53.8" N.
Longitude from Greenwich , 31™ 4.65 s E.Latitude, 48° 34' 59.7" N.
Director: A. Winnecice.
| Of the old observatory,r Of the uew observatory.
About 1770 some astronomical instruments were placed above thegate of the hospital. In 1S04 J. Henry established a small observa-tory in the Munster .(Cathedral) and observations were made there in1SJ4. A regular observatory was not established by the city until 1836,and then it was placed under the charge of Lequiante, but almostimmediately abandoned. In 1873 a new observatory was erected with-out the town, in connection with the University . Its general plan isa quadrilateral.
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia .
Government Observatory.
Longitude from Greenwich , 10 1 ' 4™ 50.6 s E.
Latitude, 33° 51/ 41.1" S.
Directors ; W. Scott, 1856.
G. It. Smalley, 1862.
H. C. Russell, 1870.
Proposed in 1855; completed in 1858. Its first instruments, suppliedfrom the private observatory which Brisbane had established at Para-matta, were those by means of which Dunlap had made his cataloguesof double stars and of southern nebulae.
Observatorio Astronomico Nacional Mexicano.
Longitude from Greenwich , 6 1 ' 36™ 41.63 s W.
Latitude, 19° 24' 17.5" N.
Authority for longitude and latitude: A. Lancaster, Liste G6neraledes Observatoires et Astronomes, 1887.
Director: Angel Anguiano.
Projected in 1876, and established at Ghapultepec in 1878. Trans-ferred from Ghapultepec March 8,1883.