CG2 REPORTS OF ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORIES. 



iniority of claim or nonconformity with tJje conditions named, the de- 

 cision shall be referred to Prof. Asaph Hall, of the ISTaval Observatory, 

 Washington, D. C, and Prof. C. A. Young, of Princeton Observatory, 

 and their decision shall be final. 



The above oflt'er, unless previously renewed, will expire January 1, 

 1882. 



H. H. AVarner. 



Saint Louis, Missouri. 

 Observatory of Washington University. 



Longitude from Washington, 52™ 37«.02 W. 



Latitude, 38° 38' 3".6J: K 



Authority for latitude and longitude : A pier about 150 feet away from 

 the observatory pier was located by IIarkness and Eembeck (1870). A 

 survey was made from that pier to the new one. 



Director: J. K. Eees, 1877. 



Instruments: 



(b) Meridian transit instrument: maker, Wurdemann ; aperture, 2.G5 

 inches; magnifying power, 90 diameters, with micrometer attachment. 



(c) Equatorial instriiment : maker, H. FiTZ, of Kew York City; ap- 

 erture of objective, 6^ inches; magnifying jiowers of eye-pieces, 7G, 125, 

 190, 305, and 456 diameters, (c') Finder: 2x3^^^ inches aperture; magni- 

 fying power, 23 diameters. 



{d) Spectroscope: one single prism Browning spectroscope. 



(e) Fhotomecer and other subsidiary apparatus : filar x^osition, microm- 

 eter attached ; clock-work for moving telescope. 



(g) Clod: : mean time ; common tower clock. 



(//) Chronometer: meantime; makers, (1) Dent Xo. 2749, (2) Blackie 

 Xo. 789. 



(<■) Miscellaneous : Sextant, by Blunt, of Xew Y'ork City. 



South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. 



JSayre Observatory of Lehigh University. 



Longitude from Washington, G'" 40M9 E. 



Latitude, 40° 36' 23".89 K 



Director: C. L. Doolittle. 



Founded in 1877, in connection with Lehigh University. 



INSTRUIMENTS : 



(c) Equatorial instrument : makers, Clark & Sons ; aperture of ob- 

 jective, 6 inches ; magnifying powers of eye-i>ieces, 12 to 225. 

 (g) Cloclc : sidereal ; makers, Bond & Son. 

 \^i) Miscellaneous : A portable transit instrument by Stackpole, a 



