G62 REPORTS OF ASTROXOMICAL OBSERVATORIES. 



priority of claim or nou- conformity with tJiC coDditions named, tlie de- 

 cision shall be referred to Prof. Asaph Hall, of the jSTaval Observatory, 

 Washington, D. C, and Prof. C. A. Yonng, of Princeton Observatory, 

 and their decision shall be tinal. 



The above offer, unless previously" renewed, will expire January 1, 

 18S'* 



H. H. AVarnee. 



Saint Louis, Missouri. 

 Observatory of Washington University. 



Longitude from Washington, 52°^ o7^02 W. 



Latitude, 38° 38' 3".G4 N. 



Authority for latitude and longitude : A pier about 150 feet away from 

 the observatory pier was located by IIaekness and Eimbeck (1870). A 

 survey was made from that j^ier to the new one. 



Director : J. K. Rees, 1877. 

 Insteibients: 



[h] 2Ieridian transit instrument: maker, Wuedemann ; aperture, 2.G5 

 inches; magnifying i)ower, 90 diameters, with micrometer attachment. 



(c) Equatorial instrument : maker, H. Fitz, of New York City; ap- 

 erture of objective, ^\ inches; magnifying powers of eye-i^ieces, 7G, 125, 

 190, 305, and 45G diameters, {c') Finder: 2yP^o inches aperture; magni- 

 fying power, 23 diameters. 



(d) iSpeetroscope : one single prism Browning spectroscope. 



(e) Photometer and other subsidiary apparatus : tilar position, microm- 

 eter attached ; clock-work for moving telescope. 



{g) Clock : mean time ; common tower clock. 



{h) Chronometer: meantime; nuxkers, (1) DentXo.2749, (2) Blacxie 

 Xo. 789. 

 (/) Miscellaneous : Sextant, by Blunt, of New York City. 



South BETiiLEnEM, Pennsylvania. 



Sayre Observatory of Lehigh University. 



Longitude from Washington, G'" 40M9 E. 



Latitude, 40° 36' 23".89 N. 



Director: C. L. Doolittle. 



Founded in 1877, in connection with Lehigh University. 



Insteuments : 

 (c) Equatorial instrument : makers, Claek & Sons ; aperture of ob- 

 jective, G inches ; magnifying powers of eyepieces, 12 to 225. 

 {g) Clock : sidereal ; makers, Bond & Son. 

 [i) Miscellaneous : A portable transit instrument by Stackpole, a 



