REPORTS OF AMERICAN OBSERVATORIES. 553 



I. Personnel: 



Director^ C. W. Irish. 

 Assistants: 1. Mrs. C. W. Irish, 



2. Miss Lizzie Irish, 



3. Miss Ruth Irish, 



4. Dr. C. M. Hobby. 



II. Instruments : 



(b) Meridian transit instruments: Makers, made by self ; aperture, 1 

 inch ; magnifying power, 11 diameters. 



(c) Equatorial instruments: Makers, Chevalier, Paris; aperture of 

 objective, 4 inches; magnifying powers of eyepieces, 25 to 300. 



(/) Chronographs : A Morse register. 



(y) Clods : Mean time ; makers, German make, beats £ seconds. 



III. Observations during the past year: 



(a) Have done nothing since the transit of Mercury, May, 1878. 



(Former) location of observatory : (City) Jackson; (County) Jackson; 

 (State) Michigan. 



Longitude from Washington, west 29 ra 29 8 . 74. 



Latitude, 42° 14' 25".21. 

 Authority for latitude and longitude: Monument set by Lake Survey. 



I. Personnel : 

 Director, O. Mulvey. 



II. Instruments: 



(c) Equatorial instruments: Makers, S. & B. Solomons, London; aper- 

 ture of objective, 3 inches; magnifying powers of eyepieces, 30 to 205. 

 (h) Chronometers: Mean time; makers, Finer & jSTowland, London. 



III. Observations during the past year: 



(a.) Telescope dismounted for past year. Will remount at Wichita, 

 Kans. 



VI. Additional information: 



I hiving removed to Wichita, Kans., please address meat this place 

 in future. 



Location of observatory : (City) Lawrence; (County) Douglas $ (State) 

 Kansas. 



X nine of observatory : Connected with Kansas State University. 

 Longitude from Washington, l h 12 ,u 47 s . 9. 

 Latitude 38° 57' 15". 

 Authority for latitude and longitude: Fred. W. Pardwell, late 

 Professor of Astronomy, K. S. U. 



