12 REPORT OF THE 



METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER, YORK, 1857. 



Important improvements have been made in tlie Observa- 

 tory. The object glass of the Telescope, presented by the 

 Rev. Dr. Pearson, for which the Observatory was built, was 

 found, upon examination, to have been altered so as to be out of 

 form, and a new one having been supplied by the liberality of 

 one of the Curators of the Observatory, William Gray, Esq., 

 it has been remounted, in a new tube provided with eye-pieces, 

 and the instrument has thus been rendered very perfect. It has 

 been tested several times, and clearly shows the minute com- 

 panion stars to a Ursse Minoris, « Lyrse and ^ Orionis, and 

 other stellar objects usually employed as tests of first-class 

 instruments ; most of the satellites of Saturn have been clearly 

 seen ; various double stars appear distinctly defined. The 

 Observatory has been repaired and painted, and in the course 



