REPORTS OF ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORIES. G91 



The first Obserratory here was established by the Jesuits at San 

 Gioraimiuo College, later called The L'cIhjioHs Schools (Seole Tie). A 

 secoud was i)roposed by the government in 1774 as an annex to the 

 Museum of Physics and Natural History of the Pitti Palace. It was 

 built from 1777 to 1784, and afterwards the establishment was trans- 

 ferred to the hill of Arcetri, where Galileo lived during the latter part 

 of his life. 



Frankfurt a. M., Prussia. 

 Pri va tc Obser va tory. 



Longitude from Greenwich, 



Latitude, ? 



Director : Dr. Epstein. 



Geneva, Switzerland. 



Ohserratoire de Geneve. 



Longitude from Greenwich, 24™ 3G^77 E. 



Latitude, 46° 11' 58".8 K. 



Directors: J. A. Mellet Favre, 1772 ; 



M. A. PiCTET TURRETIN, 1790; 



J. F. T. Maurice, 1794 ; 



P. PiCTET, 1802 ; 



A. Gautier, 1819; 



L. F. Wartmann, 1832 ; 



E. Plantamour, 1840. 

 Founded in 1771, completed in 1773. Octagonal structure built in 

 great part at the expense of J. A. Mellet, upon a casemate of the Bastion 

 Saint Antoine. In 1829 the representative council of the cantpn passed 

 a resolution for the construction of a new Observatory to be built upon 

 the same bastion not far from the old edifice. It is composed of a main 

 building of one story, and of two lateral turrets with hemispheric domes. 



Genoa, Italy. 

 Osservatorio della R. Universita. 



Longitude from Greenwich, 



Latitude, ? 



Director : i 



