The Astronomical Observatory 

 at Vienna, Austria 



By Holdridge Ozro Collins. LL. 1). 



The largest Building of the Vienna University, containing the Library, 

 Lecture-rooms, Exhibition-halls, A.dministrat ion-offices and Promenade-Colonnades 

 at tli>- junction of University street, Franzensring and Schottenring. 



Ii has been my happy fortune to pass the winter of 1907- 

 1908 in Vienna, and the mosl pleasanl of the many agreeable 

 events of my experience in thai lively city were my reception 

 by Professor Weiss and the facilities afforded by him for in- 

 specting the greal Observatory, of which he is Director, and an 

 examination of the work carried on under his control. 



My only credentia] was my Certificate of Fellowship in 

 The Southern California Academy <>!' Sciences, but it proved 

 an open sesame to ;i most cordial and more than friendly re- 

 cepl ion. 



Edmund Weiss is a Doctor and Professor of the Vienna 

 University, and he has also the higb dignity of Hofrat, or Im- 

 perial Counsellor, an honor conferred only by the Emperor, 

 who has for him the greatesl esteem, and he had the mosl 

 friendly relations with the late Empress Elizabeth. 



lie is a gentleman of medium stature, with brillianl black 

 eyes and ;i snowy mane and beard of -I ivian proportions; and 

 although seventy years old, he has the vigor and vivacity of a 

 man of fifty. 



In the several interviews I have had with him. 1 have 

 appreciated his cordiality and his evident desire that I should 



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