EEP0KT8 or ASTKONOMICAL OliSEUVATOKlKS. (il'O 



Instruinients: 

 (a) Telescope, not equatorial : niakcr, liAUDor: apcitiire of <.l)i('(tivo, 

 3 inclies: for observations of Hie sun, aperture employed, 3 iuclies; 

 luagnifying power ordinarily oni])loyed, ."iO to L'50 diameters. 

 Observatio>:s uuI^T^■(^ the past year: 

 Observations on sun-s])ots and comets and sueli oHkt erlestinl jtlie- 

 nomena as come witliin tlie ran.i;e of tlie instrument. 



BrFFALO, Eric Coinifij, Xetc York. 



Priratc Observatory. 



Longitude from AVasliington, ? 



Latitude, '. 



Director : James AV. Ward. 

 Assistants : AVife and friends. 

 Instruments : 



(b) Meridian transit instrument. 



[c] Equaiorial instrument: maker, John Byrne, New York City; 

 apertnre of ol)jective, 4 inches; magnifying powers of eye-pieces, GO, 80, 

 l.-^O, 200, 330, 400; nsefnl with liarlow lens to 550. 



(/<) Chronometer: one mean time; maker, Samuels, l-iverjMX)]. 



(/) Miscellaneous : DollAND, If inches, used roughly on alt azimuth 

 swivel for southern transits, &c. 



Observations during the past year: 



[h) ObseiYatious of Jupiter with memoraiuhi; observations on the 

 sun's spots; observations double stars and "sweei)ing"; observatitins 

 searching the floors of the lunar plains. 



AVoRK proposed for the coming year (1S81): 



As before, with illustrated astronomical instruction to a class of ama- 

 teurs. 



ambridg e, Massaeh usctts. 



The Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College. 



Longitude from Washington, 23'" 41M1 E. 

 Latitude, 42° 22' 48".3 ^\ 

 Directors: W. C. Bond, 1831; 



G. P. Bond, 1800 ; 



J. WiNLOOK, 18G6; 



Edward C, Pickering, 1875. 



Ass'itants: Miss E. G. Saunt)ers, 

 Miss S. C. Bond, 



