REPORTS OF ASTKOXO.MR'AL OH.SKKVATORIES. 007 



Directors; MOSER, 1823; 



K. L. C. ElbiKER, 1830; 



Dr. Georg F. W. Kumker, 1803. 



Secretary: Dr. Carl Sciirader. 



Built by J. G. Eepsold, in 1810, upon a location near the Altona 

 gate; destroyed by tlie rrenoli in 1813; rebuilt in 1825, throuo-h a leg- 

 acy left by Grell, upon the site of the old ramparts, and still in the 

 neighborhood of the Altona gate. It has a central hall for meridian 

 instruments, and two wings surmounted by turrets. The east wing is 

 used for a school of navigation. 



Helsingfors, Russia. 

 Magnetnaia c Meteorologichesl-aia Obsercatoria, 



Longitude from Greenwich, T' 39^^ 49MG E.' 

 Latitude, 00° 9' 43".3 N. 

 Directors: F. W. A. Argelander, 1829; 

 G. LUNDAHL, 1841 ; 

 F. Waldstedt, 1852 ; 

 A; Kruger, 1852. 

 Founded in 1829, near the University, after the fire at Abo had de- 

 stroyed the scientific instruments of that Finnish town. It was at Hel- 

 siugfors that Argelander completed and published his famous cata- 

 logue of the proper motions of the stars. This Observatory is the most 

 northerly in the world (latitude 00° 9'). 



Ipswich, England. 

 Orwell Park Ohserratory. 



Longitude from Greenwich, 

 Latitude, ? 



Director: 



Jena, Saxe- Weimar. 

 Sternwarte. 



Longitude from Greenwich, ? 



Latitude, ? 



Directors: J. F. Posselt, 1820 ; 



L. SCHRON, 1852 ; 



E. Abbe, 1878. 

 Built in 1820 in the same garden where Schiller wrote Wallenstein. 



