REPORTS OF ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATOUIKS. (ioS 



Observation's during the past yeak (from .lanuaiy .">, isso, 

 wlieii telescope Wcas monuted, to February l'.;, issi ) : 

 (c) AVith liij;li powers, doubles aud variables; also observations on 

 planets and ou the sun, daily. 



Work proposed pop the comixo year (LS81): 

 Variables, aud comet seeking; also, searching for nebuhe. 



Principal publications of the observatory durinc Tin: 

 year : 



Edgar L. Larkin : IMotion. Published in Kansas City Peview, vol. 

 iv, p. 177. 



Edgar L. Larkin : Meteor Notes. Published in Science Observer, 

 Boston, Xo. 28, p. 27. 



Current newspaper articles. 



jSTew York, JSfcw Tori: 



Columbia College Observatory. 



Longitude from Washington, IG"' 29M) E. 

 Latitude, 41° 18' 3G".5 N. 

 Director: ! 



Kew York, Neic TorTi. 

 Private Observatory. 



Longitude from Washington, 12™ 15^47 E. 



Latitude, 4(P 43' 48".53 N. 



Authority for latitude and longitude: United States coast surveying 

 party (1859), with zenith telescope upon 24 pairs of stars, and telegraphic 

 communication with Washington and Cambridge. 



Director : L. M. Eutherfurd. 



Assistant : D. C. Chapman. 

 Instrilments : 



{b) Meridian transit instrument: maker, Stackpole; aperture 3 

 inches. Only used for time. 



(c) Equatorial instrument: makers, :\ressrs. Eutherfurd & Fitz; 

 aperture of objective, 13 inches. The telescope has been employed 

 mostly in photograi)hing the sun, moon, and groups of stars. 



(/) Chronograph: Morse. 



[g) Clock : sidereal ; maker, Dent. 



