ASTRONOxMICAL OliSERVATORIES. 405 



AiiMA(!n, Ireland. 



Observatory. 



Longitude from Greenwich, 20"' 35.5^ W. 



Latitude, n4o 21' 12.7" K 



Authority for longitude and latitude, Connaissanco des Temps, 18S4, 



p. xiii. 

 Dhrctors : J. A. JIamilton, 1792. 



T. K. IIOBINSON, 1825. 



AsnuRT, England. 



Observatory. 



Longitude from Greenwich, 1'" IG^ W. 

 Latitude, 51o 15' o8" N. 



Authority for longitude and latitude, Connaissauce des Temps, 1884, 

 p. xiii. 



Athens, Greece. 



Observatory. 



Longitude from Greenwich, 1^' 'M^ 55.7'' E. 

 Latitude, 37° ryS' 20" N. 

 Directors : G. C. BoURiS, 1844, 



J. F. J. Schmidt, 1858. 



The observatory is an establishment of Baron Georg von S(NA at 

 Vienna. At the wish of the first Athenian astronomer, Professor Bou- 

 Ris, Baron I'rokerch von Osten, the Austrian embassador at the 

 Grecian court, by his influence, had favored the project, and on the 

 8tb of July, 1842, during the great eclipse of the sun. King Otto laid 

 the first briok on the Hill of the Nymphs, the northern extremity of 

 the Hills of Onyx, northwesterly of the Akropolis, in an isolated situa- 

 tion, 105 meters above the level of the sea. 



The founder of thisestablishmeut, Georg von Sina, died in May, 1856. 

 His son, SmoN, Baron von Sina, became the protector, and on May 15, 

 1858, appointed J. F. Julius Schmidt as astronomer, and on the IGth 

 of December, 1858, as director: 



Bamberg, Bavaria. 



Stermcarte, C. Remcis. 



Longitude from Greenwich, 43'" 32^ E. 

 Latitude, 49° 53' 28" N. 

 Director: E. IIartwig. 



