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ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORIES .

(c) Equatorial instrument: Maker, IIamsden, in 1777; aperture ofobjective, 4 inches; magnifying powers of eye-pieces, 40 and 60.

(d) Spectroscope: Direct vision, maker, S. Mekz, at Munich .

(e) Photometer : Made by the late Prof. L, Sciiwerd, at Speyer . Ofthe three made by him, one is in Bonn , and the other in Pulkowa.

if) Chronograph: Maker, Ansfeld, at Gotha.

(. g) Cloelcs: One, mean time, maker, Shelton (London ); one side-real, maker, Hardy (London 1819).

(h) Chronometer: One, meantime, maker, Dent, No. 2,796; one side-real, maker, Dent, No. 2,000.

(i ) A heliostat, by S. Merz. Various ancient astronomical instru-ments and modern meteorological instruments. The library of the ob-servatory contains 1,966 works, in 4,181 volumes.

Viviers, France .

Ohservatoire.

Longitude from Greenwich, 18 m 44 s E.

Latitude, 44° 29' 14" N.

Authority for longitude and latitude: Connaissance des Temps, 1884,p. xii.

Director: -.

Warsaw, Kussia.

Astronomicheskaia Observatoria.

Longitude from Greenwich, l h 24 m 7.4 s E.

Latitude, 52° 13' 5.7" N.

Directors: - Arinin ski, 1820.

J, D. Baranowski, 1848.

J. W OSTOKOFF, 1877.

In 1764 Eostan made observations at the castle. From 1765 to 1768N. Wolf made observations at the Blue Palace on the Mniszecli. Theobservatory was not established permanently until 1820, and the ex-penses of construction w 7 ere met by Straszyz, president of the univer-sity. It contains a hall for meridian instruments, and two towers withcupolas.

Wellington, New Zealand .

Government Observatory.

Longitude from Greenwich, ll h 39 m 11 s E.

Latitude, 4l° 17' 15" S.

Authority for longitude and latitude: Connaissance des Temps, 1884,p. lii.

Director: -.