720 EEPOETS OF ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORIES. 



(b) Meridian transit instruments: maker, Che. Staeke; aperture, 4 

 inches: (h') maker, Schrottee ; aperture of objective, 3 inclies. 



(c) Equatorial instruments: makers, C A. Steinheil's Sons, in 

 Munich; aperture of objective, G inches; magnifyinj>- powers of eye- 

 pieces, 50, 84, 253, 420, 672. (c') makers, Utzsciineider & Feaun- 

 HOFEE, Munich ; ajjerture of objective, 3 inches. 



((/) Spectroscopes : one; G. & S. Meez, Munich; one small star spec- 

 troscope; makers, CI. «& S. Meez, Munich. 



(/) Chronograph: one; Dr. M. HiPPS, Neuchatel, maker. 



{(j) Clods: meantime; makers, Lepaute, Paris; sidereal; makers^ 

 J. BozEK, Prague. 



(/<) Chronometer : mean time; maker, Baeeaijd. 



(i) Miscellaneous: one sextant; maker, Tycho Beahe; one octant; 

 maker, Tvcno Beahe; one large (Hohen EJreis), by Tegughton, in 

 London. 



Observations dueing the past yeae (1880): 



No astronomical observations were made during the year. 



WOEK PEOPOSED FOE THE COMING YEAE (1881): 



It will be impossible to make astronomical observations during the 

 coming year. 



PeINCIPAL publications of the ObSEEVATOEY DUEING THE 

 YEAE 1880: 

 Magnetische und Meteorologische Beobachtungen im Jahre 1879, 

 40ter Jahrgang, 4to, (vol. xviii of series). 

 Additional infoemation: 

 The two meridian instruments (a) and {b) have not been used for half 

 a century, for want of a suitable meridian room, and have been stored 

 away in boxes. 



The two equatorial instruments, (c) and (c'), though mounted, are not 

 being used for observation purposes, "owing to the absence of a movable 

 cupola, but are employed in the lectures on practical astronomy. 



No astronomical observations whatever can be made in the present 

 condition of the old Observatory. 



PuLKOWA, Russia. 

 See PoulJiovo. 



Quebec, Canada. 



Observatory, 



Longitude from Greenwich, 4^' 44™ 49^3 W. 



Latitude, 46© 48' 17".3 N. 



Director: E. D. ASHE, 1863. 



Built in 1863 on Bonner's Hill, near Quebec. 



