384 ASTKONOMICAL OBSERVATORIES. 



Instruments : 



(6) Meridian transit instrument : A small one made by the director 

 himself; aperture, one inch ; magnifying power, 11 diameters. 



(c) Equatorial instrument: Maker, Chevalier, Paris; aperture of 

 objective, 4 inches ; magnifying powers of eye-pieces, 25 to 300. 



(/) Chronograph: A Morse register. 



{g) Cloclc : One mean time; beating three quarter seconds ; of German 

 make. 



Jersey City, New Jersey. 



Private Observatory. 



Longitude from Washington, 11^" 48.49" E. 

 Latitude, 40° 42' 50.30" N. 

 Director : Henry Harrison. 



Instruments : 



Equatorial: Eefractor, new, by John Byrne; aperture, 4^ inches; 

 focal length, 39 inches ; power of eyepieces (with insertion of Barlow 

 lens) from 20 to 400 ; Troughton position filar micrometer ; apparatus 

 for projecting solar image. 



Spectroscope : With view telescope and collimator cabinet; length, 7 

 inches ; Eutherfurd diffraction grating f by 1 inch. 



ClocJc: sidereal, Thomas. 



Lansing, Michigan. 



State Agricultural College Observatory. 



Longitude from Washington, 29™ 44» W. 

 Latitude, 42° 43' 54" In\ 

 Director : E. C. Carpenter. 



The observatory is rather for instruction than investigation. 



Lawrence, Kansas. 



Observatory of the Kansas State University. 



Longitude from Washington, P 12™ 47.9' W. 

 Latitude, 38° 57' 15" N. 



Authority for longitude and latitude : Fred W. Bradwell, late pro- 

 fessor of astronomy, Kansas State University. 

 Director : H. J. S. Smith. 

 Instruments : 



(6) Meridian transit instrument : Makers, Stackpole Bros. ; aper- 

 ture, 2^ inches. 



{g) Clocli-s : One mean time ; makers, E. Howard & Co., Boston 

 (medium): one sidereal; maker, Brockbanks, London (old). 



