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{h) Chronometer : Frodsham, jSTo. 3148. 



(i) 3fisceUanmus : A couplo of self-roeor(lingmeteoroloj,Mcal and ina^'^ 

 netical iustruinents are iu oonstaut use. 



Observations of 1880: 

 Jupiter's satellites, luuar occultatioiis, daily examination of chroino- 

 sphere and solar spots, systematic search for ultra-Xeptnniau planet. 



Work for 1881: 

 Continuation of the same observations. 



Principal publications in 1880: 

 Eesults of Meteorological and Magnetical Observations, 1870. 

 Astronomical results appear in the monthly notices of 11. A. S. 

 Meteorological results published by the Board of Trade. 



Strassburg, Germany. 

 Stermcarte. 



Longitude from Greenwich, SI-" 2^49 E. y 



Latitude, 4SO 34' 53-.8 X J ^/ ^^" ^^'^ Obsen-atory. 



Longitude from Greenwich, 31™ 4^05 E. | 



Latitude, 480 31' 59".7 S. i ^■^""' ^''"■- '^^'"""""'J- 



Director : A. Winnecke, 1875. 



About 1770 some astronomical instruments were placed above the 

 gate of the hospital. In 1804 J. Henry established a small Observatory 

 in the Munster (Cathedral), and observations were made there in 1824. 

 A ref'ular Observatory was not established by the city until 1830, and 

 thenit was placed under the charge of Lequiante, but almost imme- 

 diately abandoned. In 1873 a new Observatory was erected without the 

 town, in connection with the University. Its general plan is a (puid- 

 rilateral. 



Sydney, New South Wales. 

 Government Observatory. 



Longitude from Greenwich, 10" 4'" 50«.0 E. 



Latitude, 33o 51' 41".l S. 



Directors: W. Scott, 1856; 



G. E. Smalley, 18G2; 

 H. C. Eussell, 1870. 



Proposed in 1855, completed in 1858. Its first i-^^;"»^f «' ^"l^: '^^ 

 from the private Observatory which Brisbane had establ.slu.l at I aia- 

 matta, were those by means of which Dlnlap had made h.s «•- =>logucs 

 of doilble stars and of Southern Nebuhe. Jhis establishn.ent o.ns a 

 refractor with an aperture of 11 inches (0'". 28). 



