554 REPORTS OF AMERICAN OBSERVATORIES. 



I. Personnel: 

 Director, H. S. S. Smith. 



II. Instruments: 



(b) Meridian transit instruments : Makers, Stackpole Bros.; aper- 

 ture, 2^ inches ; 



(g) Clocks : Mean time ; makers, E. Howard & Co., Boston (medium) ; 

 Sidereal ; makers, Brockbanks, London (old). 



(h) Chronometers: Sidereal; makers, T. S. & J. D. Negus, New- 

 York (good). 



(i) Miscellaneous : Sextant, Gambet. 



III. Observations during the past year: 

 (6) {b') Time. 



IV". Work proposed for the coming tear (1880) : 

 Not settled. 



VI. Additional information : 

 Observatory torn down in April. Small temporary observatory in 

 process of construction. 



Location of observatory : (City) Madison; (County) Jefferson; (State) 

 Indiana. 

 Name of observatory : Fairmount Observatory. 



Longitude from Washington, b 33 m 34" +. 



I. Personnel : 

 Director, Israel Fowler. 

 Assistant, My son. 



II. Instruments: 



(c) Equatorial instruments : Maker, I. Fowler ; aperture of objective, 

 G inches; magnifying powers of eyepieces, 90, 120, 300. 



{()) Clocks : Mean time ; maker, I. Fowler. 



(i) Miscellaneous ; My yard is my observatory ; location, Fairmount, 

 near the City of Madison, Jefferson County, State of Indiana. I and 

 my son are the observers. Instruments: 1. A 6-inch metal reflector, 

 focal length 90 inches, mounted equatorially with hour and declination 

 circles, also tangent screw for slow motion. 2. A portable silvered glass 

 reflector 50 inches focal length, with eyepieces varying from 40 to 300 

 diameters. 3. A mean-time clock beats seconds, used as a regulator in 

 my watch shop, all made by myself. I commenced my observations in 

 1809; scarcely a favorable night has passed without finding meat the 

 telescope, but I have kept no record, so it can be of no service to science. 



IV. Work proposed for the coming year (1880): 



I propose the coming year to keep a record of all observations made ; 

 so if I should awkwardly stumble upon something of interest I will com- 

 municate the same. My observations will be confined to sun spots, a 

 search for Vulcan, and observing Jupiter and Saturn. 



