706 REPORTS OF ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORIES, 



nifyiug powers of eye-pieces, 80 to 1,300 diameters, (c') Makers, A. 

 Steinheil, in Muuich, and E. JtJNGER, in Copenhagen j aperture of ob- 

 jective, 4J inches (108™™); magnifying powers of eye-pieces, 16 to 200 

 diameters. 



(d) Universal spectrosco2)e by G. & S. Merz, in Munich, with 3 sets of 

 prisms a vision directe. {d') Simple spectroscope by Heustreu, in Kiel, 

 constructed after the indication of Professor Vogel, in Potsdam. 



(f) Chronof/raph : one by Mayer & WoLF, in Vienna. 



(g) Clocks: sidereal time; one, maker, Kessels, in Altoua: one, 

 maker, Tiede, in Berlin. 



(k) Ghronomeh'r : mean time; maker, Kessels, in Altona. 



[i) One universal instrument by Repsold, in Hamburg; 3 telescopes 

 by DoLLOND, Merz, and Peossl. 



Observations during the past year (1880) 



(a) 11,859 positions of stars in the zone 31° 50' to 40° 10' of north 

 declination. 



(c) (c') Measures of double stars; observations of comets; observa- 

 tions of variable stars. 



{d) {d') Spectroscopical researches on red stars. 



Work proposed for the coming year (1881): 



The same as in 1880. 

 Principal publications of the Observatory during the year. 



Axel Moller: Ephemeride fiir Fayes Comet, published in the Ber- 

 liner Jahrbuch, 1882. 



Axel Moller : Ephemeride fiir Pandora, published in the Berliner 

 Jahrbuch, 1882. 



K. C. Duner: Ephemeride fiir Panopela, published in the Berliner 

 Jahrbuch, 1882. 



Lyon, France. 

 Astronomical and Meteorological Observatory, 



Longitude from Greenwich, ? 



Latitude, 1 



Director : C. Andre, 1877 ; 

 M. Andre ; 



Assistant : M. GoNNESSiAT. 



There was an Observatory in existence in the eighteenth century at 

 the Jesuit College, where Fathers Bonnet, Berauld, Lef^^vre, and 

 Lapon ma<le observations. The new Observatory was founded in 1877. 



Instruments: 

 (a) Meridian circle: maker, Eichens; diameter of circles, 23^ inches 

 (0"'.00), divided to 5'; read by 4 microscopes to 0".l; aperture of object- 

 ive, 6 inches ; for observations of the sun, aperture employed, C inches ; 

 magnifying power ordinarily employed, 300 diameters. 



