394 ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORIES. 



NORTHFIELD, MINNESOTA. 

 Carleton College Astronomical Observatory. 



Longitude from Wasliington, 1^ 4"" 23.85« W. 



Latitude, 44° 27' 40.77" N. 



Authority for longitude : longitude depends on exchange of telegraphic 

 signals between Coast Survey otfice at Saint Paul and director 

 at Northfield. Authority for latitude : zenith telescope obser- 

 vations of 40 pairs of stars reduced to apparent places from 

 Safibrd's catalogue. 



Director: William W. Payne. 



Conii)leted in 1878. Attached to Carleton College, central building, 



G meters long, surmounted by a dome, with two wings, one used for 



meridian instruments, the other for the library. 

 Instruments : 



(b) Aferidian transit instruments: Makers, Fauth & Co.; aperture, 3 

 inches ; magnifying ])Owers, GO, 70j and 80 diameters. 



(c) Equatorial instrnmtnts : Makers, A. Clark & Sons; aperture of 

 objective, 8^ inches ; magnifying powers of eye pieces, 50, 100, 200, 400, 

 800. {&) Portable equatorial: maker, John Byrne, of New York; 

 aperture of objective, 4.3 inches. 



(/) Chronograph: One, made by A. Clark & Sons. 



{g) Clocks: One mean time; makers, E. Howard & Co., No. 19G; 

 one sidereal ; makers, E. Howard & Co., No. 195. 



(//) Chronometer: Sidereal; makers, Bond & Sons, No. 374. 



{i) Miscellaneous: The observatory has been favored by the loan of 

 a good zenith telescope for several months from Lieut. Edward Ma- 

 GUiRE, chief engineer in the department, with headquarters at Saint 

 Paul. The. large equatorial .is provided with micrometer, with a full 

 battery of eye-pieces. 



Omaha, Nebraska. 



Creighton College Observatory. 



Longitude from Washington, . 



Latitude, . 



Director : . 



(Near) Oxford, Mississippl 



Observatory of the University of Mississippi. 



Longitude from Washington, 49'" 55.03« W. 

 Latitude, 34° 22' ]2.G4" N. 



Authority for longitude and latitude, K. B, Fulton. 

 Director : 11. B. Fulton. 

 The observatory was erected in 187G. 



