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INSTRU3IENTS : 



(a) Telescope, not equatorial : maker, r.AiiDou: aperture of objective, 

 3 inches: for observations of tlie sun, aperture employed, 3 inches; 

 magnifying power ordinarily em])loyed, 50 to L'oO diameters. 

 Observations during the past year: 



Observations on sun-spots and comets and sucli other celestial phe- 

 nomena as come within the range of the iustrunieut. 



Buffalo, Erie Count y, ]\\'w York. 



Private Ohscrratorif. 



Longitnde from Washington, ? 



Latitude, ? 



Director : James AY. Ward, 

 Assistants: Wife and friends. 

 Instruments : 



(b) Meridian transit instrument. 



(c) Equatorial instrument : maker, John Byrne, Xew York City; 

 aperture of objective, 4 inches; magnifying powders of eye-pieces, (50, SO, 

 130, 200, 330, 400; useful with Barlow lens to 550. 



{h) Chronometer : one mean time; maker, Samuels, Liverjiool. 



(i) Miscellaneous : Dolland, If inches, used roughly on alt azinnith 

 swivel for southern transits, &c. 



Observations during the past year: 



{h) Observations of Jupiter with memoranda; observations on the 

 sun's spots; observations double stars and "sweeping''; observati(ms 

 searching the floors of the lunar plains. 



Work proposed for the coming year (1S81): 



As before, with illustrated astronomical instruction to a class of ama- 

 teurs. 



Cambridge, Massachusetts. 



The Astronomical Observatory of JIarvard College. 



Longitude from W^ashington, 23™ 41M1 E. 

 Latitude, 42° 22' 48".3 K. 

 Directors: W. C. Bond, 183 1; 



G. P. Bond, 18G0 ; 



J. WiNLOCK, 18GC; 



Edward C. Pickering, 1875. 



Ass'-.tants: Miss R. G. Saunders, 

 Miss S. C. Bond, 



