82 ANNUAL RECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



OBSERVATORIES OF ENGLAND AND ENGLISH COLONIES. 



The Monthly Notices of the R. A. S. for February, 1878, contains the 



reports of the proceedings of observatories, "which may be summarized 



as follows : 



Greenwich Observatory. 



The Meridian and Alt-azimuth instruments are employed as in former 

 years. The Equatorial has been used for drawings of Mars, on the spec- 

 troscopy of the sun, moon, Mars, and fixed stars, and of the " rain- 

 band" in the solar spectrum : 109 photographs of the sun have been 

 taken. The computations for the nine-year catalogue of 2363 stars 

 are finished. 



Radcliife Observatory, Oxford. 



The usual routine work has been done, and solar spots observed. 

 The Heliometer has been employed on Mars and Saturn; twenty-five 

 measures of Saturn s diameter have been made. The catalogue of 

 stars is advancing. 



University Observatory, Oxford. 



The Savilian Observatory, Oxford, has published Part I. of its as- 

 tronomical observations. It describes the instruments of the obser- 

 vatory, and gives a series of observations of satellites of Saturn 

 one of Mimas (?), ten of Enceladus, none of Hyperion, and from forty- 

 five to ninety-seven of the brighter satellites. Part II. contains 

 four hundred observations of 118 double stars. Part III. is de- 

 voted to the comets of 1877, which were well observed. Part IV. 

 contains new orbits of three of the older binaries. Twelve hun- 

 dred photographs of the moon have been taken, and are to be 

 measured to determine the anfount of libration. The geographical 

 co-ordinates of the observatory are given to 0.001", or about one 

 inch on the earth's surface. These are quoted from Ordnance-Survey 

 data. 



University Observatory, Cambridge. 



The zone observations are continued. 



Dunsink Observatory. 



The red stars of Bebjellerup'a catalogue have been nearly all ob- 

 served, and the Equatorial has been employed in measures to deter- 

 mine the parallax of stars. 



Edinburgh, Liverpool, and Glasgow Observatories. 



The usual routine work is continued. 



The Edinburgh Observatory has issued its fourteenth volume, un- 



